'Wish Area' Using a take-off on the wisteria, utilized the idea of what it was which was and/or still wished for as measures of importance to me..... using the floral as the means of having the past in shade, established the lost desires from my youth, when played Tarzan for three years at a summer camp - hence the loincloth around the knife handle - a life loved but in the past, never to be able to be again.... the manuscript is in the light - something being done and wished to be eventually...... the recorder is half in, half out in the shade - something of playing music still is wanted, and is yet a possibility..... the ring is another like that - memories of in the past, yet a willingness to have that again, a marriage.... the lotto ticket - the ultimate in wishfulness, and the least likely to come to being, as the bending of it into deep shadow...... the issue of art - well, the work itself is real, so there is no need of wishing, as it is an actual....... there was only one other item which should have been added - a newspaper clipping of the shuttle going up.......

'after jim davies 

'hob knob' The first was the color work, an attempt many years ago, of doing a trompe l'oeil work, and patterned this after one of Jim Davies'...... it was such a nicely rendered one that when back into the pen/ink, decided to try my hand using the pen.... both works were well received, especially in how well the seeking to getting the realism was achieved - even the pen/ink was considered a success..... of course, could not resist playing with the word, hobnob.......

'The Garden' The idea of a garden behind closed doors is not new - one of the oldest is the myth of the Garden of Eden..... here, however, note a few twists to the notion - the gate is latched from the outside, not the inside - the 'grass is greener on the other side' motif is used, along with the idea of potentiality being thru this gate - the play off of 'The Wizard of Oz' movie, where the present is black/white, and the inviting world is in color...... all is implying that the future is there for us to make of it as we would - be it a new day or new life, all is a newness to be explored and made use of.....