Artworks
Aliens Trilogy
Acrylic on canvas with poetry
Recursive Nightmare, 2025
Textured acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
I feel the tidal waves
as they crash through my shore.
Falling to the floor. Never sure,
till I’m sucked through my trap door.
Thrice a day I’m buried alive.
On and off since I was five.
Heart beating in overdrive.
I feel I’m gonna die. I survive.
Dry heaves, choking on snot n spit.
Cannot breathe. Almost vomit.
Gag. Repeat. Sweaty. Shaking.
Spinning. Spitting. Panting upon waking.
The dread takes a shape.
An albatross. I’m dead weight.
There is no escape.
I awake. It kicks in.
No thought. No care.
Stripped bare. Gasping for air.
Alone in this room.
Dragged down to a sudden doom.
It lives with me like a shadow
through light, with dark, to the gallows.
Any hope, suffocated with despair,
in my recursive nightmare.
I checked my ticket to find
I won the cruel lottery of body and mind.
Blessed with this curse since birth.
Countdown. No marks left on this earth.
Welcome to my panic.
I wish I was manic.
I pinch myself.
A hollow figure,
somebody pull a trigger,
put a bullet in my head.
It’s okay.
I’m already dead.
The Darkest Nights, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 12 x 12 inches.
You didn’t need to skin me alive
To see the color of my blood.
I always survive, then wish I’d die,
As I’m dragged through the mud.
Left feeling so explosive,
Violent and corrosive,
A drop of Alien’s blood,
Eating through the tub.
Layers Unearthed, 2025
Textured acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 inches.
It lies beneath
every layer of grief.
Begging to breathe
from elbows to knees.
Unmask it,
from cradle to casket,
fetal to fetal,
unthreading the needle.
Months in a day’s gloom,
as Mother Earth consumes
a blooming womb
inside this tomb.
Liberty and Liberty II, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
WHAT DO YOU SEE?
What does it mean when liberty is bound and silenced? Is this protection or censorship? Patriotism or blindness? Resistance or surrender?
Liberty, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 inches.
Liberty II, 2025
Textured acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
Liberty III, 2025
Textured acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches.
Resistance, Resilience, and survival.
Acrylic on Canvas
California Poppies: A Quiet Resilience
Textured acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Sunflower on Fire
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches.
Liberty Rose, 2023
Serigraphy
Liberty
[lib-er-tee]
noun.
plural liberties
- freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
- freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
- freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
- freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint.
- a female figure personifying freedom from despotism
Rose 1
[rohz]
noun.
- any of the wild or cultivated, usually prickly-stemmed, pinnate-leaved, showy-flowered shrubs of the genus Rosa.
- any of various related or similar plants.
Rose 2
[rohz]
verb.
- simple past tense of rise.
- Nonstandard., a past participle of rise.
Rose 3
[rohz]
verb.
- a female name given.
Liberty Rose (Distressed)
18×24 inches.
4-color screen print serigraph. Artist – hand pulled on 80lb Cream Cordtone (Speckletone) French paper. Edition varied edition of 7 (EV I).
Liberty Rose (Metallic Red)
18×24 inches.
4-color screen print serigraph. Artist – hand pulled on 80lb flat Cream (Speckletone) French paper with hand deckled edges. Limited Edition of 25.
Liberty Rose
18×24 inches.
4-color screen print serigraph. Artist – hand pulled on 80lb Cream Cordtone (Speckletone) French paper. Edition varied edition of 27 (EV II).