Master's Thesis, "Backgrounds:" on file at California State University at Long Beach. The project consists of watercolors of ten people sitting in their favorite spots in their homes, the objects around them reflecting their inner makeup, including the astrological influences on character of the four elements. The portraits are a small part of what Little Richard calls "God's Bouquet" ...or what Jack Kerouac called Desolation Angels
the one above is Bob Anderson; ten paintings comprise the group; in a vague chronological order they are the Hansens, Patricia and Amanda Noonan, Gary D. Elsey, Pete Martin, Patricia , Daniel B. Freeman, David Forrester, Don de Lew, who was working on paintings for his own master's exhibit, and I wish I could say I did the picture I had in my mind of my mom and dad sitting together on the little sofa in the dining room to add to this, but....
Please see the tile mural installed in Bayshore Branch Library, Long Beach, California (Second and Bayshore) in 1979 as part of the Long Beach CETA Public Works of Art Project. It is titled "Time and Tide, or The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts." Please go see it in person: the linked photo here (even though I took it myself) doesn't do it justice. It's a 196-piece tile mural of the water surfaces of Marine Stadium over a 9-month period; each tile is individually hand-painted and fired and shows the high or low tide from the day it was painted. You can ride the lunar tides visually through this piece, as the periods of higher high tides and lower low tides are the full and new moons throughout the year and so are seen at regular intervals throughout the piece. It is a graphic study of time. One of the preliminary watercolor panels, "Time and Tide VI," is on display on a page of water imagery in the McArchives
Recent appearances in the print media: a brief artist's bio and description of the "Time and Tide" mural are in the 1995 addendum to Robin Dunitz' Street Gallery (p. 81 & 55)and at the L.A. Mural Conservancy web site; Animal Spirits reprinted in Lynn Johnston's Remembering Farley, 1996 (p. 165)
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ESL/Education:
Teachers and students: For a list of reading and reference books for ESL and/or developing readers, go to Ali Baba's Annexe.
If you like my art, you might like what I read: In association with Amazon Books, you can click on any book titles you see on this or other pages to look at and order at discounts of 20% - 40%. For a listing of relevant personal favorites, go to Ali Baba's Old Bookshop or Ali Baba's Constant Recommendations. For example, The Long Day Wanes, A Malayan Trilogy, by Anthony Burgess. Other of my personal favorites you can find there are Earthly Powers, by Anthony Burgess; Desolation Angels, by Jack Kerouac; and A Course in Miracles.