Majio Mixed Media

Ancestors are lined up through the nstructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into an X-ray of a mouth printed on silk, a cave. opening. Diamonds arise fro...

Working from the concept of Haiku Mind had a surprising impact on how this work was conceived. The ancient poetic form of Japanese haiku is traditionally a tool for acute observation...

Diptych Tango Paper Dolls with Dog Tags-acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper collage, found objects, and vintage paper doll. The first image in the diptych is the sensual emb...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage, is the collective fool dancing at the edge of ascension and disaster. It is a collective archetype that acts it out for ...

Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage, includes a symbolic spell script from an ancient Taoist manuscript. This speaks to meeting risk and chance wit...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collaged images are choreographed with calligraphic marks. The obscured X-ray, a reminder of risk, of the gamble. In ...

This mixed-media skateboard series, On the Pinnacle, combines acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and textured collage on paper. It suggests that anyone with enough guts, skill, and luck ca...

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels. A lone boat flanked by symbolic spirit winds comforts the highly superstitious sailors and fishermen, ...

Experimenting with burlap and plaster on wood with beads, the Medial Woman arose as a catalyst to invite the liminal space. The genre is folk art, putting communication between world...

Crows, Red/black Japanese hanafuda gambling card, fertility and silver charms. The worn spot beneath the curved wire asks what’s missing? In this five-piece mixed-media series on wo...

Frog/goddess of transformation is flanked by a single bean believed to carry the souls of ancestors to connect with the past and ensure lineage. In this five-piece mixed-media series on wood...

Triptych Indigo Rain-encaustic, paper, oil paint, fabric, and wire on panel. This unusual piece has antique indigo cloth with wire stapling on wood. The imagery plays with the deep c...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas. The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer, she looks out from a two-...

The Tibetan dorje, a ritual object in Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizes indestructibility and irresistibility while a crow peeking out from behind the Japanes...

Small child hovers suspended above a black bird taking flight. In balanced on one side a brass hook frog, on the other side a ritual object suggesting a strategy game of duality unit...

This Diptych Taking Form with a leather-like finish of cold wax with layers of marked tissue paper on wood reflects the theory that all physical form takes place first in consciousne...

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Silver Shell, acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper, collage, and found objects, is in the context of paper dolls. There is a sense of an icon wi...

Medial Woman with Frog, on a rough wood plank, is covered with burlap and plaster for a leathery look, edged with beads. Encaustic wax layers the elements together. Medial Woman, as ...

Less literal than the other trays, Tray #5 presents a brass knob, turtle talesman, trinket of a vessel and an esoteric tool---possible implement in a fairytale. In this five-piec...

Mixed-media Series: Frog at the Bridge-Acrylic paint, copper, found objects on wood. Patinaed copper frog reaches the end of a long suspension bridge. Like many transformations facil...

Revolution in Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Revolution can be an orbit or gyration, an uprising or insurrection. All require movement in space/time...

In the Layers of Reality Series, the Shaman/child is depicted. In anthropologist Manvir Singh’s definition of shaman, there are three basic features: entering non-ordinary states, en...

Tyme of Revolution, cold wax, monoprints, transfer, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Within history, culture binds values and meaning to time through symbols. These images of flags and gas...

With a folk-art flavor, burlap and plaster on wood with beads, Medial Woman in a Moment is captured in contemplation, held together with encaustic wax like a backyard icon. Medial Wo...

A six-week studio stay on Moloka’i gave me a sense of the Hawaiian Islands before colonization. Moloka’i has preserved her rich Native Hawaiian heritage and natural, rural landscape,...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

EEncaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images f...

This diptych, Markings, with a leather-like finish of cold wax and layers of marked tissue paper on wood, reads as an ancient surface immersed in the markings of time. Fragments of m...

Seeds, acrylic paint with silk ribbon, silver beads on wood, like slips of engraved silver on rough wood, seek a place to grow. From a knothole, a silky material peeks out, inviting ...

Diptych Tyme Before Time, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. There have always been intervals of movement in space. The marking of sun and seasonal cycles has been pres...

The original image, Fox on Gold, confirms how the trickster fox appears throughout my work for decades. In the spirit of haiku mind, I carried this image with curiosity for weeks, as...

Monks Series, # III, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025. Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no single ...

Monks Series, # II, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2025, 24 Layers of Reality Series is an ongoing exploration through the visual arts of the idea that there is no sing...