Lightness of Being bronze The Teton Mountains in Wyoming

The Teton Mountains in Wyoming have stature all year round

They still live in villages that cling to the six hundred foot high escarpments of three rocky mesas rising abruptly out of the desert plains of northern Arizona

their graceful silhouettes at the base of Arizona’s Canyon de Chelly

I saw an abandoned farm truck not far from the main road

The heavily beaded and quilled pipe bag carried a peace pipe and tobacco for shared camaraderie

Lightness of Being bronze The Teton Mountains in Wyoming24" x 24", Mixed Media "My painted work is based on the use of mixed media (acrylic, oil, powdered pigments, charcoal, chalk pastel, oil pastel) applied in an expressionistic and fragmented fashion, aka disrupted realism. While this approach lets me explore my emotional response to my subjects, it also requires an intense and wordless conversation. Because each piece is a mini adventure, my failure rate can be frustrating at timesbut the successes are