Gallery
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Unexpected
Scarlet Ibis in the Land of Awe
$175.00Add to cartInspired by visits to the Washington Zoo
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Love series
Twilight Love
$600.00Add to cartInspired by a pair of Indonesian puppets bought at an auction
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Unexpected
Invisible Woman (Sold)
Read moreThis painting is about the invisibility of women’s everyday life.
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Unexpected
Still Waiting
$800.00Add to cartThis painting is about a woman waiting for her lover to call.
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Unexpected
Discombobulated
$775.00Add to cartThis painting is about different worries women face every day.
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Unexpected
The Lonesome Bride of Tuscany
$800.00Add to cartInspired by a recent trip to Tuscany in Italy.
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Unexpected
Mannequin Story
$675.00Add to cartShe wears her hat down low over one fetching eye
Her defiant insouciance brightening the dull grayness
of the eternal present
She grows flowers in iron
green and white bursting through
stillness and stiffened time
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Travels
Teofila
$575.00Add to cartThe ghosts of flowers
haunt me.
The ghost of the Lady in White
comforts me.
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Magpies and Mannequins
Magpie’s Dream
$450.00Add to cartMagpies
do
not
steal
shiny things.
They steal
hopes
dreams
sorrows
tears.
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Magpies and Mannequins
Magpie’s Jealousy (Sold)
Read moreOne magpie looks up
mesmerized by the
flittering deep purple shadow and pearls
the other looks sideways
assessing, calculating.
Grey organza, fading yellow, black shifting vertical stripes
Twilight approaches on soft feet.
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Magpies and Mannequins
Magpie’s Mischief (Sold)
Read morepearls
glisten
magpie
steals
mannequin
dances
sun
shines
joy
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Magpies and Mannequins
Magpie’s Delight
$475.00Add to cartThe cypress trees
yearn for Leonardo
under the Tuscan sun.
Magpie yearns for something
beyond the comfort of
pearls
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Magpies and Mannequins
Magpie’s Lark (Sold)
Read moreMagenta
flowers
stand tall
in crystal clarity
and the magpie
waits for the
lady to glance
away
as she will
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Still Life
Tang Dancers (Sold)
Read moreDancers from the T’ang
twirl with their long sleeves floating above them.
Their grace unfurling happily
in the absence of the eyes of men.
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Still Life
Bagatelles I (Sold)
Read moreA group of interesting objects acquired at antique auctions and thrift stores.
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Still Life
Bagatelles II
$200.00Add to cartA group of interesting objects acquired at antique auctions and thrift stores.
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Unexpected
Goldfinch Delight II (Diptych)
$425.00Add to cartInspired by a family birdwatching trip
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Unexpected
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Triptych) (Sold)
Read moreInspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson
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Still Life
Prelude I and Prelude II
$150.00Add to cartI hold the ancient globe in my hand
and see its twin in the twinkling dusk.
I long for lost continents, promontories, worlds
where I can vanish like escaping smoke
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Director's Cut
Infatuation
$2,000.00Add to cartVellum music and a gull hanging in the motionless blue
the piano and the piano player
in the humidity of the fern forest
play in the infatuated air
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Unexpected
Romance (Sold)
Read moreWas I awake
Longing for you?
Or was it a dream
longing for you?
Even the unfeeling feel
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Unexpected
Friendship
$1,000.00Add to cartA bird, a butler,
a friendship
years in the undertaking
and in a moment of grief,
reinforced
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Cat Windows
Cat Window IV
$825.00Add to cartindifferent indigo cat
cheeky snuff-colored desert sparrows
the world spins through its orbit
and the hidden mercy of the blazing sun and sifting sand
only the camel knows
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Unexpected
My Dark Angel
$975.00Add to cartInspired by a brilliant Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and his 10-episode series called Dekalog.
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Travels
Roadtrip (Sold)
Read moreAs middle age slips into porcelain weakness
Late blooming friends on a roadtrip
drink oolong tea
the warm lemony steam slowing time
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Still Life
Auction Finds II
$650.00Add to cartThe monk lingers
in silence
while the lady meditates
in the twirl of silk and taffeta.
All joy expressed in the
powder blue of a
budgerigar’s feathers.
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Still Life
Auction Finds I
$650.00Add to cartTime
is a fluttering wing
in a birdcage,
a
pawn
inching forward
except
when conquering
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Travels
Cardamon Tea
$800.00Add to cartCardamon tea
in a
river boat
on a
canal
and
the fresh scent
of the wedding
lingers
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Youth
Monarch Project
$750.00Add to cartThree generations of
Monarchs make
a migration
with the last generation
that heads to the warmth
of the mountain cypress
living the longest.
We, too, are linked
generation to generation
in the moving
towards mountain warmth
and innocent joy.
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Youth
Brave New World (NFS)
Read moreThe future
should be rooted in
hope
and expressed
in hopeful
longing but
it is our children
with their kindness
who will realize
its true potential
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Travels
Seaside Memories (Sold)
Read moreMy father even
when he sat with
my hunched-over mother
reading her Saturday magazine in her furry
slippers
had a feline grace,
a watchful repose
that old age never took away
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Youth
Sweet Dreams (NFS)
Read moreHe sleeps in the garish noon light
the heat pushing through the blinds
the lazy day awaiting.
He stirs and then
goes back to sleep.
Summer and son soon will be gone.
But return they will.
Please, may I?
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Travels
Coffee
$500.00Add to cartI savor the
scent of the Yirgacheffe coffee
while I think of
you, my beloved
child and how you
fit so snugly and so minutely
in the top cart of the airport
luggage trolley on the long walk
through the corridors
home
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Still Life
Lights, Cameras, Action!
$800.00Add to cartThe athletes warm themselves
glinting with silica and olive oil.
The cameras wait.
The curtain draws back
and a flicker of joy
illuminates the
darkness of time.
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Cat Windows
Cat Window I (Sold)
Read moreA cat
pauses in his pursuit of goldfish
and looks at the moon
beyond me
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Cat Windows
Cat Window II
$825.00Add to cartA watchful kitten and
a teapot
sit among the faint scent of
aloe vera leaves;
the dry
forsythia branches
shed silently
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Cat Windows
Cat Window III
$825.00Add to cartMy attenuated elephant
looks at its shortened
shadow
while my indifferent
cat
silently watches the
nervous world
beyond
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Director's Cut
Ikiru
$800.00Add to cartInspired by “Ikiru” (To Live), a movie directed by Akira Kurosawa. A man talks to his bird, reflecting on his life and the things he stood up and fought for.
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Director's Cut
Mr. K’s Lodgings
$800.00Add to cartInspired by Stanley Kubrick, a great and eccentric director and his “2001 Space Odyssey”. There is a tiny bit of “Dr. Strangelove” in my painting, too. This is how I envision his room would look like circa 2001!
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Director's Cut
Fantastic Mr. A
$575.00Add to cartInspired by movies directed by Wes Anderson. Can you guess which movies are represented in this painting? Hint: there are six.
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Travels
In the Old Country
$500.00Add to cartThe Old Post Office
where once
surly post workers growled
lies empty and
the wooden stairs
in the palace in Kornik
are now being warmly worn down
from the tourists walking
through with their slippered feet.
I feel like an autumn leaf
scurrying through a quickly changing world,
here in my home town.
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Travels
New York Rhapsody (Sold)
Read moreThe crescent moon
glimpsed among the
deep blue strip of sky above the
narrow gray buildings
of Clinton Street.
How I long for you..
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Commission
Manali (Sold)
Read moreMy mother hated to travel. She preferred the cacophonous
dust of Maddipakkam.
My father loved travel.
Loved looking out over the mists
of Manali.
58 years married and neither
changed the other.
My sister mourned them both equally but
she mourned the lost adventures more.
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Still Life
Sunday Afternoon
$275.00Add to cartA tea cosy
and pearls.
The age of empire lingers
here.
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Travels
Signore C
$150.00Add to cartTears of a clown?
Tears for what?
The music in the stars
brings not back love
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Travels
Madame B
$150.00Add to cartMaria Callas
and Cleopatra.
Twinned ferocities of intelligence,
of culture,
rendering mere beauty boring.
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Still Life
Thinker
$275.00Add to cartShe leans back
her spine arching.
Her taut back muscles
gleaming with youth.
Flower, moon, her beauty
all eternal
for a moment.
