Indra's Net Meets Noah's Ark

What happens when myths collide? Indra's Net is a Vedic myth about connectivity and holographic relationships. Noah's Ark is a myth about separation and purity. We are living into the question: "What do you save when you are connected to everythiing?"

After telling the story of Indra's Net to a viewer, she asked "Where is the Net?" Good question. The entire world is the net, every block is on the diagonal. The net is the relationships between everything.

Testament

Initial watercolor inspiration drawing

Light Like Eternity

Inspiration happens anywhere. I was on a ferry returning from the San Juan Islands, looked out and saw the moon in a turquoise sky. Time stopped, it was a premonition of eternity. Wonderful feeling, but how do you carve eternity?

Dancers, Healers, Mystics

Matt is a wonderful dancer and performer. He''s a perfect model for St. Francis. I just didn't have a strong enough concept for why St Francis is relevant today. Reading a biography taught me he'd been captured and held as a prisoner of wor for over a year in a medieval dungeon. That's relevant for his radical change of life.

Dancers,Healers,Mystics and Call Now 1 800 FTR LIFE

It's hard to represent an 8 foot tall sculpture in this format. You can either see the entire piece or you can see details. Dancers, Healers, Mystics paired with Call Now.

One Fine Day

One Fine Day, Oil on carved wood panel, 96 x 48 x 6 inches.

Apotropaic Apps

Call Now

Originally Apotropaic Apps and Call Now were a single work. But a 4 foot cell phone a top a 6 foot figure is 10 feet! That's too big for me or my studio. So it became two related carvings. Instead of a 3D figure, Call Now is the ad for the latest must have Apotropaic Apps EYE phone.

This was the original idea, except it would be over 10 feet tall! It became two separate carvings.

Orpheus and Eurydice

We know of her because of his love. We know of him because his music soothed the savage beast and changed the course of rivers. His music could even stop or reverse time. If only while the music plays. Carved wood relief 45 x 29 x 5 inches

Her Husband's to Aleppo Gone

This line from Shakespear's Macbeth captures the curse and the plight of the Syrian refugees.

Carved wood relief 38 x 83 x 5 inches

Her eyes were so sad from the moment they were carved.

To Grandmother's House

To Grandmother's House shows the inspiration, creation, and installation of a large wood carving and CorTen steel sculpture by artist Patrick Gracewood. Part of the Trolley Trail, a walking trail at the terminus of the new TriMet Orange light rail line.

Monster Log in my driveway. The beginning.