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What I painted when I could not paint
4 Untitled 1 sunflower 17x 15 oil on panels 1996 5 Untitled 2 pineapple 19x17 oil on sectioned sectioned panels 1996 6 Untitled 3 hot potato 19x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 7 Untitled 4 animal landscape 19x17 oil on sectioned panel 1996 8 Untitled 5 candles 19x19 oil on sectioned panels 1996 9 Untitled 6 suitcase 21x20 oil on sectioned panels 1996 10 Untitled 7 drain 13x18 oil on sectioned panels 1996 11 Untitled 8 shells 19x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 12 Untitled 9 watermelon 20x23 oil on sectioned panels 1996 13 Untitled 10 target 20 x21 oil on sectioned panels 1996 14 Untitled 11 funnel 17x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 15 Untitled 12 bird legs 21x23 oil sectioned panels 1996 16 Untitled 13 charm 18x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 17 Untitled 14 arrow heads 17x18 oil on sectioned panels 1996 18 Untitled 15 haze 20x20 oil on sectioned panels 1996 19 Untitled 16 lantern 21x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 20 Untitled 17 wishbone 17x20 oil on sectioned panels 1996 21 Untitled 18 lock 16x20 oil on sectioned sectioned panels 1996 23 Untitled 19 buttons16x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996 24 Untitled 20 yoke 15x19 oil on sectioned panel 25 Untitled 21 boulder 17x22 oil on sectioned panels 1996 26 Untitled 22 night 20x20 oil on sectioned panel 27 Untitled 23 horseshoe 18x20 oil on sectioned panels 1996 28 Untitled 24 pear 20x 21 oil on sectioned panels 1996 29 Untitled 25 jump fish 21x21 oil on sectioned panels 1996 30 Untitled 26 bottle 21x17 oil on sectioned panels 1996   31 Untitled 27 oyster 15x16 oil on sectioned panels 1996 32 Untitled 28 tower 16x18 oil on sectioned panels 1996 33 Untitled 29 aquarium 16x18 oil on sectioned panels 1996 34 Untitled 30 cat 19x21 oil on sectioned panels 1996 35 Untitled 31 lighting 20x20 oil on sectioned panels 1996 36 Untitled 32 bracelet 16x19 oil on sectioned panels 1996 jquery lightbox wordpress by VisualLightBox.com v5.7m

  WHAT I PAINTED WHEN I COULD NOT PAINT, oil on sectioned panels ©1996

  One day, and then several days turning to one week and more, I could not paint. To get unstuck, I painted one small painting each
  morning and called it a day. One tiny painting accomplished was a goal met. Soon, I had a lot of work and felt productive and confident.
  Within the body of tiny paintings and I found relationships of compositions, colors, and objects that worked together. Combining the works
  made larger mosaic like paintings, which are framed in wide black wood.

















































PAINTING
1991-1995
1996-2000
2001-2005
2006-2010
2011-2014

MINI-SERIES
1990 Peppers, Seeds, and Rotting Vegetables
1996 What I painted when I could not paint
2005 For the Birds
2007 Butterflies are free
2011 The Year The Permafrost Softened

WORKS ON PAPER
1988-1989 Chairs
1989-1990 Umbrellas
1991-1998
1997 The Chase
1998 Dismantled Sketchbooks
1999 Ragdale Series
2000-2004 Collage Art
2002 Charcoal
2000-2004 Figure Drawing
2000-2005 Project Art
2000 Spinning Plates
2002 Fan Collages
2001 Screaming In Places Where I Can't Be heard
2004 Wonderscapes
2005-2006 The Story of the Universe
2008 Buddha Was Here
2009 Life On Hold (NFS)
2010-2016 The Demandments (NFS)

MIXED MEDIUM
1995-1998 Sectioned panels
1997-1998 White Paintings and Furry Work
1998 Red Dot Series
2001-2009 Wax, Wire, Gold, Globe, and Glass
2001 How Things Pile Up
2002 Retablos, oil on metal

OBJECT ART
2002-present Project Items
Historic-present Fane Items
1550-1560 Ancestral Figure Drawings

INSTALLATION
2002-2016 Paradise
2006 Negative to Positive
2007-present Four walls*
2008 Found
2010-present Teacups for Reading Tea Leaves
2011-present Waterworks*
2000-present My Crates

PERFORMATIVE
2004 White Sands
2006 Blue Clouds

LIBRARY OF BOOKS 2000-present
Painting Inventory
Book of Days
Whitewash
The Ragdale Book
Brain Book
Ransom Magazine
Box of Tears
Pocket Full of Cries
Europe
Mongolia
Flower Book
Retablos: How I Got From Here to Here
The Fane Pamphlet
Scroll of Influence
The Story of Red Trees
Red Trees History
Red Trees Chronicle
Red Trees Prayerbook
Red Trees Kakemono
Book of Leaves
Elemental Communion
Found: Journals from the future
Symbol Book
Books of Sense
Organ Origin
The Wedding Program
The Wedding Book
I Must Go
Ladder Book*
Book of Stairs*
The Studio Visit Playbill*
Flower Book 2*
...continued

STUDIO PRACTICE
Studio 1: Dayton and Blackhawk
Studio 2: Hubbard and House
Project scouting and on location
Works in progress
Exhibits, happenings, homes
Studio clippings and announcements
Artist

WORLD RIVERS PROJECT overview
World Rivers: Curtain
World Rivers: Participants
World Rivers: Rivers
World Rivers: Cloth
Visit the River Log

TEXT ARCHIVE
Artwork
Installation
Books

* documentation is forthcoming
This archive is a creative history spanning two decades.
The documentation is comprised of many technological
formats ranging from slides, 4x5s, photographs, and
straddles the introduction of digital formatting of the time.
The goal was to preserve images, whether high or low resolution.






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