The Shell Station at Long Beach

Landscape with Geese Taking Flight

Colored pencil on paper. Circular with half-inch border, 8 inches in diameter.


I was thinking about Bob when I made this. And Italy. And my return to Tennessee, since I was on the plane to Nashville when I started this piece. And the concepts of home and travel and migration and displacement and Transmigration (of the soul, as in ancient Greek and/or Hindu conception).

Never Had Me a Name

They just gave me the number when I was young. (Lines from Johnny Cash lyrics.)

Swim (in Tuscan Red)

Colored pencil on paper. 20 x 7 inches. Detail images below.

Landscape with Peanut and Rattlesnake

Graphite on paper. 20 x 7 inches.

Landscape with Snail and Salmon

Landscape with Snail and Salmon, graphite on paper, 20 x 7 inches. In memory of Mo the Apple Snail, Jean-Pierre and Lil Q-bert (goldfish). Detail images below.

Blue Agave

. . . the one I brought from Texas.

New Drawings

Graphite and watercolor wash on paper. 20 inches high x various widths.

Dunsmore

More Descanso

Birds of Descanso

Yellow Tangle (Devil's Hair)

This is Cuscuta californica (a kind of Dodder) a.k.a. devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, angel hair, and witch's hair (source). I've only hear it called Devil's Hair in the past, a name that makes me think of the Beck song, "Devil's Haircut," and I wonder if the plant's name triggered the song. Beck says it's a song about vanity, beauty, materialism, greed, etc. There's that part about "... rotten oasis / stealing kisses from the leprous faces." Devil's Hair is a parasitic plant that literally sucks life from the plants it grows on. Good metaphor, intentional or not.

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