Monsterland Assorted
colored pencils on paper
9" x 12" (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
SOLD
The Id, as I understand it, is the place where the most basic, and perhaps the most horrifying, parts of the mind dwell. It is a place of basic instincts. For creative purposes it is a highly desirable place to explore. It is dark, dangerous, lethal and horrific. It can also lead to truth, understanding, awareness and a rational explanation for the irrational. As ugly as it maybe, there is always beauty to truth. However, beauty is not always truthful. Much of therapy is about confronting the demons of one’s self. It is something dark, difficult, complex and painful. When not denied, it creates reality. When ignored, the monsters have a way of making themselves known. To pretend that they do not exist is to create a world without pain. Life is not always painful. But life is never pain free. There will always be monsters. How you cope with them is where free will and empowerment begin.
Crawling Nowhere
Assorted colored pencils on paper
9" x 12" ( 22.9 x 30.5 cm )
April 2022 Price: $50
Several weeks ago, my psychiatric medication ceased to work properly. I woke in the night paralyzed in both legs. My arms became difficult to control. My speech was slurred to the point of making me almost incomprehensible. My higher intellectual functions were intact, but I was exhausted from it all. I was trapped in a body that prevented me from functioning. I had double vision. When I ceased taking all medications, my symptoms stopped. They never returned. The details of that night are like a dream, but vivid. It was weeks later that this drawing emerged as a biographical painting of what happens when our mental and medical health care systems and medication all fail at once. All that is left is to crawl in the dark to find some kind of relief from the pain, despair and the horror of mental illnesses.
Mental Landscape
Assorted colored pencils on paper
9" x 12" ( 22.9 x 30.5 cm ) Price: $50
This work is a visual depiction of the mental status of someone who is dealing with the distress of mental illness. The imagery is an imagined one based on a visual interpretation of what neurons firing in the mind might resemble. This is not a medical illustration in the strictest sense. I was not aiming to describe what these things look like, but rather how they may feel. The mingling of fragments of memory and the bio electric firing of neurons were the subject matter interpreted from a highly personal perspective.
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Pen & Ink
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Bearded hiry chested model
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Classical male body
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Colored chest model
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Colorful muscle man
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Dark haired model double portrait
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Double laying down man
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Drawing from art gallery session
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Frontal muscle man view
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Graphite on tracing paper study
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Grecco Roman phallus
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In thought model
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Ink exploration male from
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Ink on paper standing male study drawing
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Leather masks with text
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Man from Utah
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Man in underwear
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Man with hat ink study
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Man with pole
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Model in deep thought
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Profile view
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Raw study drawing
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Relaxing bearded man
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Standing architect two
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Standing male study drawing
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Standing man study
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Stocky man standing
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Study of mature owner standing
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Study with ink and two figures
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Study with pointilism males
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Actor 2
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Actor model
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Architect
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Bearded man study double
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Contemplative man
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Male nude folded arms
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Male study for painting
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Man seated with back to you
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Study of man sitting
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The kind man
