New Exhibit: "IMMERSED"

GALLERY VERITAS, VERO BEACH, FL.
FEBRUARY 2024

"IMMERSED" explores the relationship between art hanging on a wall, and the viewer who merges into the piece. I took all these photos from behind the subject in galleries and museums over the past three years.

SHORT FILMS

THE

2019 • 8m

"THE" is the most commonly used word in the English language accounting for four percent of everything we say, yet she is unable to exist by herself. An elder in the language, she struggles to understand where she belongs in an ever evolving world.

THE PISTOL

2018 • 10m

Two elderly ladies take down a young neighborhood thief and move to Florida.

PORTFOLIO Click on the image to see a bigger version

BRAND NEW DAY

Inspired by the lyric by Annie Lennox

"Now I need to walk alone, but I won’t be sad, I won’t be destroyed,
And the word said ‘Hey, it’s a brand new day…”

FISH IN AQUARIUM

Inspired by the poem by V.P. Mahur

“Fish, colourful and swift
Like a beautiful gift
Sometimes bold, sometimes shy
Sweeps quick as if wishing to fly

ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE

Written by Lerner & Lowe, 1963

“All at once am I,
Several stories high,
Knowing I'm on the street where you live.”

PINK WINGS

Inspired by the poem by Laura Cummings

“Feather light wings that float softly through the air tickles
Bright white light inflamed with pink and laced with gold
Raising flowers, changing seasons
Singing in high pitched voices that only children can hear”

I LOVE PARIS

Lyric by Cole Porter, 1953

“I love Paris every moment
Every moment of the year
I love Paris, why oh, why do I love Paris?
Because my love is near”

YOU'RE A WOLF

Lyric by Sea Wolf

“Old gypsy woman spoke to me
Said ‘you’re a wolf boy, get out of this town.”

ALL SOULS NIGHT

Lyric by Loreena McKennitt

"I can see lights in the distance
Trembling in the dark cloak of night
Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing
A waltz on All Souls Night"

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Hilliard/Fain, 1951

“When clouds go rolling by
They roll away and leave the sky
Where is the land beyond the eye
That people cannot see?
Where do stars go?
Where is the crescent moon?
They must be somewhere in the sunny afternoon
Alice in Wonderland
Where is the path to Wonderland
Over the hill or here or there?
I wonder where…”

HUMPTY DUMPTY

I painted this in oils a few months before Ukraine was attacked. I had always wanted to go to Ukraine and see the oldest onion dome architecture - here I positioned a happy Humpty on the wall amidst the towers of Kyiv, Ukraine. Bizarre that it is now under siege and Humpty may fall...

NIGHTBIRD

Lyric by Stevie Nicks, 1983

“And when I call you – will you walk gently through my shadow?
The ones who sing at night.
Cry for the nightbird tonight.”

OLD KING COLE

Nursery rhyme, 1706

“Old King Cole was a merry old soul,
And a merry old soul was he;
He called for his pipe, and he called for his bowl,
And he called for his fiddlers three.
Every fiddler he had a fiddle,
And a very fine fiddle had he;
Oh there's none so rare, as can compare,
With King Cole and his fiddlers three.”

HAPPINESS IS EASY

Lyric by Talk Talk, 1986

“Happiness is Easy
Joy be written on the Earth
And the sky above
Gather us in love”

THERE MUST BE AN ANGEL PLAYING WITH MY HEART

Lyric by Annie Lennox

“And when I think that I’m alone
It seems there’s more of at home
There’s a multitude of angels
And they’re playing with my heart.”

WOMAN'S WORK

Lyric by Tracy Chapman

“Early in the morning she rises,
Woman's work is never done”

HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS

Poem by Emily Dickinson, 1891

“Hope’ is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul –
And sings the tune without the words –
And never stops – at all …”

RED ROCK MOUNTAIN

Poem by Dr Fazlul Huq

“Orange red mountain made of rocks and stone…”