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Formentera, Spain
Watercolor – 7 x 11 inches.

A storm from Africa visited the island during the night.

In the morning, giant clouds carrying the dust of the Sahara

billow high above the waves, like lemon-colored sails.

In a chalk-white house at the edge of the beach, a woman

sleeps alone on a rumpled bed:

blue sheets, white pillow, amber skin.

Outside her window, palm fronds snap in the wind

but she hears only the gentle breathing of
a man asleep on the other side of the world.

She feels his heartbeat through a thread as thin as a strand of saffron

that he has looped around his wrist. When she releases her end
of the thread, they will both tumble, together, into the clouds.

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April Snow
Watercolor – 11 x 14 inches.

I admire the strength of daffodils pushing their green fingers up out of the cold earth. The little yellow creatures won’t last long. But as Mary Oliver points out, “I think this is the prettiest world—so long as you don’t mind a little dying….” #artzone #art #contemporaryart #artistsoninstagram #art #arte #contemporarypainting #artforsale #realisticart #fineart #visionaryart #painting #modernart #artist #artdaily #visualpoetry #artlover #kunstwerk #watercolorpainting Source: http://bit.ly/2P1BaPt

Light Storm – Acrylic/canvas – 32 x 40 inches.

Storms usually visit us from the heavens, with ominous clouds and rough winds, growling thunder and lightning flashes. What if a storm happened in reverse, that it brought us a torrent of light instead of rain? What if the storm arrived not only from above, but out of the earth as well?

That was the premise of this painting. It provoked surprising reactions. After seeing it, for example, a few friends expressed concern about the health of my mind. Why, I didn’t know. The storm seemed perfectly plausible to me.
The painting was purchased by a psychic healer who lived in the state Georgia, USA. He later died, I was told, from the bite of a poisonous spider. What became of the painting I don’t know.

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