Past Works

There are many ways to present one’s art. What follows is a reversed chronological flash presentation of my creative processes and personal evolution.

East: 2018 - Current

The forest is your teacher. Sabbatical from lichens. Painting. Forest mandalas. Spring offerings each full and new moon. Hiking. Wandering. Exploring. Creative writing. Stories. Compassionate communication practice circles. Air pollution data analyses. Work for earth skills school, Firefly Gathering. More strong women standing near me. Gardens actually grow this time. Soil building. Winter garden. Food from beneath the snow.

“The Galaxy Beneath our Feet” – Oil on Birch Board, 2022

“The Galaxies Beneath our Feet” as it was being painted during an artist’s residency with the United Plant Savers

Lichen peice in progress, oil on wood panel, 2022

“Some Lichens Like it Diry” Oil on birch panel, 2022

Nastassja painting “The Awakener” – the wind that rises at dawn. Photo by Brian Thompson, 2022.

The wind doesn’t make mistakes. Oil on panel, 2022.

Spaces Between the Branches #1, Oil on Birch Board, 2021

Spaces between the Branches #2, Oil on Birch board, 2021

Spaces between the Branches #3 – Oil on birch board, 2021

The Forest is Spring – Oil on birch board, 2021

Spaces between the bracnhes, continued studies 2021

The outside is not so different from the inside – the top half is the outer world, the bottom half the inner world, the green is what we see as ourselves, the yellow is what we percieve as others, the lines are our areas of focus, the shapes are those things happening that we aren’t focused on – Pastels on paper, 2021

The sun always looks like its pointed right at us, and if we were seeing from many different perspecives, we’d see the sun shining bright right there, a million suns – Pastel on paper, 2021

Leaves on the forest floor, little bits of sunshine hidden for the winter – Pastel on paper, 2021

Peltigera lichen, the sun feeding it from above, the earth waving with it from below – Pastel on paper, 2021

Fir forest at 6,000 feet – Pastel on paper, 2021

The intersection between land and water – Pastel on paper, 2021

Rain pounding, Releasing. Pastel on paper, 2021

The spell of cause and effect. Each color represents a type of event. Is cause and effect as linear and seperated from all other causes and effects, as we so often tend to percieve it? – Pastel on paper, 2021

West: 2006-2018

Deep Beneath the Sedentary Layers – Oil on Canvas 2018

Finding Heart Center – Oil on Canvas, 2018

Darkest Night, Colored pencil on paper, 2019

The Enlightenment Stupa of Lama Yeshe – Linoleum block print, 2017

Lizard Journey – Linoleum block print, 2016

Limbo and near paralysis. Friends too, its not just me. Freight train escape. Southern Appalachians. Forage wild plants. Dumpster food. Banned from a National Forest for living in one place for too long. Go west. Northern Rockies. No electricity, no plumbing, tall forest, abundance. Thin soil. Plants not growing. Run out of money. Back to school. Integrate into world, can’t escape. Study lichens. Channeled Scablands. Argentina. Sub-Antarctic. Great Basin Desert. Alpine. Emotional and physical and mental bodies out of alignment. Illness. Alternative healing. Contemporary Mysticism. Tibetan Buddhism. Animism. Painting. Block printing. Drawing. Strong women standing near me.

North: Early years

Put your hand down, no more about paradigms, says the highschool history teacher. Here’s a sculpture to show what I mean. Some get it then. Cognitive Science for university. Something is missing in our consciousness. I will help find it. Year 2000 elections. Protests. 1st political science class. Not boring. Politicized. Its the stories that are missing in our cognition – its not our brains. Its the input, not the processes. Become a journalist. Do the school. Study political science instead of writing. Anyone can write. Its the context that’s most important. And the context is big. Its heavy. Its rickety. Its thousands of years old. Its blowback blowing back and back again. Its too much. Draw it. Exploitation everywhere. Draw it. Its within me, I can’t stop it. Draw it. Drop out of university. Limbo. Lost. And then the magic begins.