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Love Letters Thirsty Thursday Visual Artwork

Dear Red | Letter 2

Dear Red,

My hands miss you even now. They miss the feel of your skin, the warmth of your body. They miss running through your hair, squeezing the soft skin around your neck, pinching your taught nipple, parting your lips, fingers swimming in the warm wetness, tight and strong, yielding walls.

My fingers miss you even now. They miss creating the causes for those small moans to escape your throat. They miss meeting your fingers in the push and pull games we would play. They miss tickles, and walking along the pale bumpy shore of your shoulder blades, raised pores, sensitive beyond measure. They miss control with tiny touch. They miss running for their lives to avoid being crushed in the roiling brawl, dark room, damp sheets, foot on floor, head on bed. 

My head, it misses you even now. It spins and movies play across my lids. I yearn to close my eyes in every waking moment to bring you back to my here and now. My ears feel your lips, hear your whispers. My neck hair raises to think that near you passed. I smell the air hoping to catch the non-existent waft of your invisible scent – woodsy deodorant, dark amber and cotton candy.

My dearest Red, my soul misses you even now. It was as if it was whole until I bore into you and created the causes for my own misery. Misplaced attachment and tangible fear of loss to replace peace and joy and love. An uncontrolled desire that rewrites fact with lustful fiction on a cord I wrap ‘round both our necks.

Dear Red what mind is it that yearns for direct suffering as the product of a wish? What mind that reaches for the poison on the top shelf and strives to spill every last drop into its own being? What unabashed lust that craves bodily satisfaction over everlasting love? It is my mind. So in my mind we sit together now. All night long we have not stirred, and yet God has not said a word! 

“Red” ~ 10.20.20 ~ Acrylic on Canvas ~ 12″ x 16″

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Commission Visual Artwork

Backyard Tea

Request: Paint the glass bottom of a restored tea tray.

Instructions: Maybe a teapot or something summery.

Result: I went with tea on the patio of my grandparents’ backyard. Something I’ve had the privilege to enjoy my entire life. The baseball announcers sang the song of summer. Memories flow: listening to Yankees vs. the Jays (my grandpa’s team versus my grandma’s) while my brothers and I smack a tennis ball off the brick wall with squash rackets. Fresh cut grass and trimmed hedges. Sparrows sing and squirrels forage, rustling foliage. Hot tea and cold coca-cola.

My grandparents recognized it immediately and loved the finished result.

Evaluation: Success.

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Commission Visual Artwork

Happy Halloween 🎃

Request: Carve 5 pumpkins.

Special Instructions: I want to make children cry.

Result: Some children wouldn’t come up the stairs, because it was too scary.

Evaluation: Success.

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Poetry Saturday Expressions Visual Artwork

Saturday Expressions! | Session 1

Saturday: the day I’m designating for the shameless sharing of my artistic endeavors whether they be poetic, painted or playlist.

We’ll kick it off this week with painting & poetry.

Below, oil painting, “Where is my mind?”

Where is my mind? ~ 02.04.21 ~ 12″ x 16″ ~ Oil on Canvas

Below, excerpt from November-release poem, Come Together:

… as only magic that persuades
the body move separate from mind
out of control, dancing in time
to art brought forth from empty space
a fire burns within this place
a story comes forth from your lips
I’m dancing with it on my hips
it is hypnotic as I twirl
no longer human, no more a girl
a spirit, light and transformed, airy …

Come Together, 2020

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Visual Artwork

Happy Accidents

Abstract paintings whose stories depend entirely
upon the mind of the observer.
Please enjoy this acrylic collection!


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