acrylic on canvas: "Stonewall Inn, Sheridan Square, NYC"

Stonewall Inn - based on photos from 1969, the year that patrons, tired of the constant harassment and abuse from bigoted police and callous criminal tavern owners, rose up against then during one of  the many police raids on the establishment, igniting unrest for several days. 

 

watercolor: Koi Pond

"Koi Pond" was part of a "house portrait" commission. There were two pieces composed: the house, and the pond. My decision - when doing a site visit it was evident that the pond, built by the homeowner, was a source of pride and love. But the view of the house the owner wanted was from below the pond. This perspective was one looking front the deck to the yard. There was no way the portrait would have been complete without a suitable depiction of the pond. 

Illustrated Essay: "Homeless Man Found Dead"

 

Watercolor/gouache : "Lynn's Coffee Table"

 

ESSAY / Illustrated Text: "Governments Exist by Consent"

 

LANDSCAPES: Shady Acres, Lakeville, San Diego, CA

 

ESSAY: Personal Credo

 

ESSAY: Economic Treason

A Treatise on Our Current Economic Circumstances

An Act Concerning the Breach of Public Trust by Managers of Monies and Resources Who have Taken, Used and Spent so as to Personally Profit from the Resources of Share Owners and Citizens.

> The premise is simple. When certain individuals or parties conduct themselves in such a way as to jeopardize the economic and social well being of the community, and have done so while personally benefitting simultaneous to the detriment of those who have entrusted them with proper management of certain resources, they have "endangered the life of the polity", and, as a result, may have committed Economic Treason.

> Include that they be held accountable for their actions, and be required to repay society for the effects and impacts of their actions accordingly.

> When decision makers, representatives of the polity, if you will, engage to assist those who violate the sacred trust, they too, must be held accountable. But here we must also address what the legal definitions of involvement may be.

> There are precedents in history, however unsavory, for the punishment of such crimes were to meted out against the transgressors.

> We don't have to follow these methods if they do not seem fit. Perhaps the penalty of Death is not sufficient deterrent. For some, forced remediation and reimbursement for the crimes they committed shall be,  for the remained of their lives, would be a far more brutal, yet, fitting, retribution.

> Even, possibly, allowing the perpetrators appear to go free, but to be permanently banned from holding any professional titles, licenses, certifications or authority; forbidden to vote - much less engaged in the public decision-making process; obligated to maintain a very public address without interventions or protections. Let forces take their own course. They shall have to deal with their adversaries unprotected.

THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH THE THE LAWS AS RELATED TO CRIMES OF ECONOMIC TREASON SHALL BE RETROACTIVE TO THE YEAR 1980. THEY SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO ANY KIND OF STATUES OF LIMITATIONS.    

First penned in 1991, First Public showing: August 1991, Connecticut Legislative Office Building Complex

 

On The Road: Traffic jam on route 95

 

QUOTES: Salmon Rushdie

 

Street Scenes: Gelston House in East Haddam Village

 

Chalk Mural: 10,000 Sunflowers

 

Pet Portraits: Jack and Friday

 

Essay: Stop Coercive treatments

 

Pen & Ink: City Street

From the Sketchbook  

 

Pen & Ink: Commercial Kitchen

 

ink/watercolor: "Now I Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds"

In memory of the combined bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 

J Robert Oppenheimer ~ regarded by many as one of the "fathers" of the thermo-nuclear bomb, referring to Hindu scripture to acknowledge the immensity 

and horror of  the outcome of their efforts. 

To have utterly decimated the populations of two cities full of civilians, even during an international conflict, the bombings were, in fact, a war crime . Official condemnation (i.e. exile, prison time, etcetera) never came for Oppenheimer or the others who developed, then deployed, these horrific weapons, their actions are recorded in history   

 

Ballek's Garden Center

 

Portraits: Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a brilliant activist and philosopher. Born in Martinique, In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported Algeria's War of independence from France and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front when the citizens of Algeria fought to wrest their nation free from French Rule. His books, "Black Skin, White Masks" and "The Wretched of the Earth" are major works of  Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial theory. 

Fanon has been described as "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time.

  

Watercolor: Leaving Belize 2

 "Leaving Belize"

Watercolor/gouache on Arches paper

(from a plein air study)