Flowers and Solace

 

SMI

SMI3 At 25 I was labelled SMI (term meaning seriously mentally ill) it's a term meaning your mental illness affects your functioning on an everyday basis. It's also used for insurance basis. A lot of mental health clinics have tons of desert crap. I see so many cactuses it's really annoying. This will be a series.

Royalty with Face Mask

 

Destroyer, tripytch with table

 

Destroyer, triptych I'm 38 approaching the age where I realize I may not be a mother. I really don't have any interest. There is still the fear of motherhood. Kind of like Goya's Saturn devouring his children. A fear you could destroy. The little people are based on a photograph of my sister Beth who would probably look like a kid of mine. I was getting rid of a table. I moved it by the painting. People at the studio remarked it looked better with the table. I agree. It felt more complete

Obsessive Compulsive Sequins series

 My spirituality (spirit babies) is compromised by my pure o which is a ocd (sequins)

Unconventional Beauty

 I am an unconventional beauty. I've accepted I'm not traditionally pretty. I used hemp because it looks like my hair.

Practical Art Anniversary show

 

The piece "Potato Gun Procession"

Mom series

My mom was close to the veil. In Mormon terms it means between earth and heaven. I wanted to make a painting about her by a curtain with faces coming from the veil. Instead I decided to have her wear the curtain. She wore her spirituality around her all the time.

Family Portrait series

Family in a sea of Mormon meal funeral potatoes which is hash browns and corn flakes.

Wrapped in a Blanket

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pink blanket person in prgoress

Squashed Babies series

This picture is for 12th anniversary show of Practical Art it's called Squashed Babies 12x12
Our mom had 6 kids. The fifth and sixth were my twin and me. Everyone came out normal. We inherited mental illness like bipolar and ocd. One of our theories is that mom pushed too hard in the womb.

 

 

Squashed Babies 2

 

Shaneland ARThena show

Me by my Angels with Trumpets series

 

The show ArtTHENA was at Shaneland and consisted of Phoenix women artists

Angel with Trumpets series

Number one of the series

 

Travelling Babies

Phil Silvers and the Corn Fields

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Phillips Pasta pictures

The Spaghetti Flying Monster was invented by atheists as a joke that people would be willing to worship anything they don’t understand.
For me, God exists. In each of my panels flies, aphids, fleas or lice are depicted, as though they have spontaneously generated from nothing. Similarly, evidence of God can spontaneously appear as a result the desires and wishes of the intent observer.
In the late 1970s there was a theory called the Phillips Experiment. Occultists had a theory that if you put enough faith and energy into the idea of a personage appearing, it would appear as a result. Phillips was a being that came out of nowhere. They used séances to make the being appear. I use a bit of glow in the dark paint in each of the paintings to represent the “special effects” of séances.
For many the idea of seeing God in flesh is a bizarre, mysterious notion. For all you know he could be a Spaghetti Flying Monster. Even if that were the case, I don’t think his exact form should be a deterrent on faith or the perseverance of his worship. Indeed, faith is the idea of hope and a long term belief in the goodness of the unknown power out there.

"The Phillips Pasta Experiment" at Urban Beans, Phoenix AZ December 20 7PM-9PM

Elohim wall

“Elohim” show The series is based on Elohim, which is a Hebrew word for God, often used by the Mormon faith. The word also means plurality of universes. Each walls consist of two Elohim characters reaching out for each other. Each character is a cartoon wizard with bubbly eyes and green/white hair. I was inspired by Michelangelo and with the two figures reaching out for each other. I used prescription bottles and cups as stencils to create the space circles in the background. The multiple bronze circles designate the many universes. The addition of the several panels adds to the plurality of the piece, breaks up the space and makes the work appear larger than its actual size.