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About Me

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, divinely aware. - Henry MillerI wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing Light of your own Being.- HafizI'm a painter/photographer/faux finisher/muralist. My mural work can be seen all over Orange county, Beverly Hills and Las Vegas. Specializing in old world techniques as well as modern, finishes include Venetian plaster, gold leafing, and oil glazes. I also specialize in children's fantasy rooms and painted furniture. My fine art work incorporates my various interests and techniques. I've traveled all through the East, Japan, Malaysia, India, Bali and Greece. My current work reflects those influences in terms of tribal and island cultures, mixing photography, painting, metallic leafing and colored wax finishes. I'm very influenced by the Japanese design concept of Wabi Sabi. Difficult to explain, it's about the aged, impermanent, melancholy of small objects. Small objects that represent something eternal and infinite. Into exotic travel, romantic weekends up the coast, browsing bookstores, art openings, quirky films, inviting spaces, mysticism, Public Radio (slave to KCRW) , photography, lots of music, jazz, funk, folk, rock, world, you name it. Massage, meditation (I practiced since I was 14 and studied in India) , yoga, chanting, hiking, cafes, Sunday morning in bed with the paper and great coffee, Monty Python, Lao Tsu, Henry Miller, Anias Nin, Matisse, Picasso, working out, cool clothes, loving our work, saving the planet, the ocean, deep eye contact and revealing conversations...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Mostly you if you are lovely, wise, empathic, creative, sensuous, smart, cool, funky yet elegant, and fun, You don't have to be an artist but i definitely jell with those who are creative or at least have a passion for the arts. If you're either a religious, dogmatic fundamentalist or a Bush loving conservative republican we are really on two different planets.

My Blog

maharishi

"Therefore, in all walks of life, under all circumstances, in all types of surroundings, animate and inanimate, living or non-living, it is necessary to have a very loving, kind and sympathetic view i...
Posted by on Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:05:00 GMT

mad ones

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing-- Jack ...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:39:00 GMT

Art as Flirtation and Surrender

Art as Flirtation and Surrender In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do,and that sight becomes this art.R...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 09:37:00 GMT

Mary Oliver poem

Needing one, I invented her - the great-great-aunt dark as hickory called Shining-Leaf, or Drifting-Cloud or The-Beauty-of-the-Night. Dear aunt, I'd call into the leaves, and she'd rise up, lik...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:33:00 GMT

Hero With a Thousand Faces

"Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And w...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:30:00 GMT

War

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world i...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:14:00 GMT

Mama don't let your babies grow up to be artists

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the Arts Kurt Vonnegut
Posted by on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:54:00 GMT

committment

Until one is committed, there is always hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of wh...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 20:46:00 GMT