More Than The Sum

One of the magical things about art is that it is so so so much more than the sum of it's parts.

(Like people.)

It's canvas and oil or acrylic or clay

and water

and energy

but it is also more.

Humans are meat.

...bones and sinew

with big round skulls full of wrinkly gray matter

(some admittedly less full than other)

we're kidneys and intestines and

one magnificently tempestuous heart

we are organ tissue 

we are cells

we are so much more

we can be so much more. 

"In Distance" vegetation on paper, unframed, $175

This painting is of mountains, but it is much more than a painting.

It is literally the Earth it represents.

(because of what went into it's creation)

For it's portrait I used materials actually from the place;

Poke berries for the vibrant fuchsia hues.

A paint-like poultice from crushed leaves.

And for the orange...

distilled dirt

(also known as mud)

bright and rich as the orange clay that comprises the hills 

because it is orange clay.