Work of the 1980s - 90s

Sump down memory drain. The first in the series of works, 1984

Sometimes you can see snakebite in motion, 1985

First, the Emcee loses control. 1984. Liza tended bar at the Hotel Utah.

Waitin on them tubifex gals. 1985 I think.

This diptych won best in show at the Triton Museum near San Jose CA in 1985 I think it was. "This river, these questions, our wounded hearts"

Go ask a good question. Joyce has now passed on at age 75, a few years ago.

Howling pictures from my native land. 1986 I think.

Portrait of Kate R., a skeptic.

Nighthouse rumba, about1986

Luxury in paper, around 1990

Awake in Persepolis, about 1990. Alyssa P. modeled once for me, this came of it but there wasn't much mutual inspiration.

Sleepwalker's Cha Cha about 1985

Planet on the inside. Deanna being herself.

Gravity tricks the sylph. Sylphs were said to inhabit the air.

Water woman afternoon. The ripples in the surface are not all visible here as some were printed in an undercoat of clear gloss acrylic.

Antonia in the warehouse in east Oakland where I photographed her a lot.

Antonia in her first day modeling did this pose and facial expression. "Riddling Sphinx awaits another City"

Portrait of a friend, Katie, who was subject to depressions and had an affection for the desert.

Willa was game for even somewhat uncomfortable modeling situations, and was able to nearly invert many of the joints of her body.

Deanna R. was a favorite model, clever physically, and a fine conversationalist. This is a detail of a print of which I don't have the entire image.

In the mid 1980s until about 2003 I made handpulled silkscreen prints incorporating my photographs via sheets of photographic film, direct emulsion screen stencils, and water soluble acrylics made for outdoor mural painting. Some were as few as 30 or so layers of paint (ink); one was 153 layers, it took five months to complete that edition.  Editions were small, six to nine prints, as the acrylic set fast and I had about fifteen minutes to pull prints once the acrylic hit the screen.  These images are from scanned slides.  Remember slides?