"'Shroom For Moore"

 A Shrine of the Tines (with Figure in Recline)

9 in.x 12 in. analog mixed-media surreal collage on spray-painted canvas with botanical catalog clippings and Mod Podge sealant

Please accept this tribute to summer’s bounty — and midcentury abstract sculpter Henry Moore’s “Reclining Figure” (1951), in lower center.

"A Lot To Swallow"

  - UPON ENTERING MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC SEASON 2025 -

11 in. x 14 in. surreal analog collage incorporating vintage cookbook imagery on a black canvas board sealed with glossy Mod Podge

To borrow from the Applebee’s commercial motto, we’re “eatin’ good in the slain bird hood”—?  Okay, that’s a stretch.  But I know those in the ornithologist circles, both professional and amateur, will at least appreciate the array here.

"Pondering"

18 in. x 12 in. mixed-media analog collage on conjoined mounted canvases with metallic black & bronze washi tape sides and a wonky, bumpy surface (from a past project that was covered-up using glossy black enamel spray-paint) scattered with 8 mm black sequins + Mod Podge sealant 

#botanicalcollage #waterlillies #watercress #surrealart #amidstnature #ennui

Revisiting an older still-life —with an additional element + reduced overall measurements

Might this qualify as Pop Art?

“A patient’s muddled perspective of Renfrew shaded by bewilderment, resentment, and the passage of six years” (spring of 2010 and 2025)

A rather crude attempt at trompe l'oeil, this older “silver platter still-life” I decided to revisit after it was returned from a friend’s restaurant in Tenant's Harbor this spring, where it had been on display for eagle-eyed patrons.  An acrylic painting of many thinly applied layers —note the somewhat warty, plastered texture— it’s a project I’d yet to find satisfaction with until I finally took the leap and cropped it in size from the rectangular 16 inch x 12 inch to align with the reduced dimensions of a 10 inch square black mounted canvas that it was amateurishly hot-glued to.  At any rate, the central tray of sweet American junk food including Kellogg Pop Tarts and various Hostess snack cakes has been updated with the addition of a melted popsicle in our nation’s colors, rendered this weekend as an ode to the sloppy, reckless handling of our imperfect democracy.