This is a little companion piece to the larger oil painting ‘Dance of the Drum Beaters.’
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‘The Monk’s Mask’ oil on canvas 20″ x 16″
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Drum beaters – Bhutan
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Druk Yul 2001
“Land of the Dragon”
Paintings on handmade paper from Bhutan, Saunders waterford paper, Arches 90 wt. paper, rice paper, gouache, watercolor, pen and ink, Caran d’ache crayons, bamboo, prayer pages, postages stamps, Xerox from traditional school of art in Thimphu, woodblock print, silver rubbing wax, graphite, fabric, color xerox, transfer prints.
size 10″ x 8″
I sketched the drum beaters dance when I was in Paro at the Buddhist Tsechu festival honoring Guru Rinpoche born from a lotus flower. Dances are performed by monks wearing ornate costumes and fantastic masks.
Intuitive Collisions, An Artists’ Book – California 1999
When I started making Artists’ Books I thought people have been making books for years and anyway, I’m a painter. What can I do that would be different? I decided to make a big book. Each page is made up of two oil paintings on canvas, stretcher bars included. Metal prongs hold them together. What is Intuitive Collisions about? My father was a financier, an industrialist and I was an artist. Our minds couldn’t have been farther apart. We ended up taking early morning walks together. He would talk to me about building a bridge or how the stock market was doing. I would be looking at how the fog masked out the vineyard leaving only the trees to see. By the end of the walk, we’d be happy to have spent some time with each other. I think we understood each other a little bit better, too.
Intuitive Collisions 1999
Oil, transfers, acrylic on canvas, stretcher bars, wood joiners,
prong type glides, metal hinges
14″ x 29″ x 9″ 58 inches open book
