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Symbolic Visions |
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Some of my oil paintings are the
end product of dreams I have had and they will not let
me sleep until I paint them. Many of them have
very meaningful stories that come from deep within and
that I attempt to convey to the viewers. |
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Flying Children
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| The two children sitting represent
children who need adult advocates in their lives. The adults
helping the children up the steps of the slide are advocates
in the judicial system and the flying children represent the
ones who have completed the process and have been provided
with happy, loving homes. |
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Mary's Tomb
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Dad
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| I had a dream the night my sister died.
In the dream I was in a cool refreshing cave looking out at an
ancient landscape where the sun was brilliant. The
landscape reminded me of Jerusalem. When I went to the library
to do research, I opened an oversized book on Israel and found
I was
on a page that had the very same scene I had seen in my dream
. . . . with the caption "Looking out from David's tomb."
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| The dried flower basket is what I took
from my Father's hospital room the day he died. I painted this
one to represent how transitional life is for us all. |
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Temples of Sacrifice
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Seaside
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| The ancient Mayan's equated the human
soul to butterflies. In the background you will find the
smoking ruins of the Twin Towers and the Mayan temple in Mexico
where they sacrificed humans as part of their
religion. The butterflies represent all of the people that
were killed, and to the right you will see an Indian walking in the
desert with two blocks of ice. This represents the futility of
it all. |
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| One night while sitting on the beach at
Seaside, Oregon, drinking wine with a lady friend, a full moon
and soft fog made the boardwalk lights sparkle like diamonds.
When I looked at Tillamook Head, I saw the form of a nude
sleeping woman outlined by the light of the full moon. |
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Sue
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Distant Past
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| In this painting everything repeats
itself. The space that Sue is sitting on has all of the forms
seen looking out of the window except the geometric forms.
There are also two cats, Sue and the large vase. |
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| In another time, another place I knew
this beautiful woman who now seems more like a mirage or part
of a dream
from long ago. |
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Greece
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| This painting came to me in a dream. The
setting sun off to the west signifies the end of Greek empire
with its ruins. |
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Latino Theme Paintings |
My
father was born in San Vicente Mexico in the state of
Tamaulipas, of Spanish decent. It was a beautiful
village with a perfect river to swim in which me and
my brothers would practically live in when we visited
there. My father moved to Texas at a young age, where
he became an American citizen and met my Mother. Of
her I don't know much because they separated when I
was just 6 years old and I stayed with my father. As
migrants that followed the crops I truly had a great
time being a child. I was never aware that I was
supposed to be having a bad time because of our status
in life.
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I got
to travel to Michigan and see the Great Lakes, we lived in
Ohio by a wonderful old house that all of us kids would
swear was haunted and was the object of many childish
imaginations running wild. We also lived in Colorado where
me and my brother would watch beautiful giant gold fish and
carp so large they were nearly half our size as they gently
swam around in a small creek. We also lived in Idaho and
Utah all as we followed the farm work. It was such a big
adventure when you are a child. We ended up in Oregon
because of the strawberries and have been here ever
since. My oldest brother was one of the first Latinos with
the State Police here in Oregon.
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Pini
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Uncle's Farm
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| I wanted to do a study of glass
objects, and had my brother pose with the different bottles
and shapes. |
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| There are actually
three pictures of my uncle's farm in Mexico. In addition to
this one, there is the orange orchards from Edinburg TX, and
the pampas grass. This is the place where many of my good and
beautiful memories come from. |
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Father and Son
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The Battle
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| This painting represents the beauty of the father and
son relationship. (I love my sons.) |
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| The two religious figures are the
Catholic priest and the Mayan priest and represent what the
conquest was about. I also wanted to show the introduction of
the horse and steel by the Spanish in the center of the
painting. In the top
part is an egg with an embryo, which represents
the birth of a new race of people by the mixing of the Spanish
and Indian
races. |
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Strawberry Picker
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Flower Shop
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This piece represents the strawberry
fields outside of Silverton, OR showing a migrant picker sitting
down to his lunch of beans and tortillas. In the background
are the outhouses representing the treatment these laborers
received sometimes. The objects in the sky represent his brain
being exposed to show that everyone has dreams, and in our
society his thoughts would be "reaching for the silver spoon. |
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Flower Offering
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Dancer
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Peacock in Orange Groves
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Serenade
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Girl Walking on Beach
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