Majio at Studio Anavami

Skateboard Series: Underfoot II: acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and collage depicts how the surface of sound travels up through the soles of the feet, through the body to the imaginati...

Skateboard Portal II, paper, linen, fiberboard, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, textured collage narrows the world to a portal of chance with the hope of transcendence.

Skateboard Portal I, paper, linen, fiberboard, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, textured collage depicts an entryway to a world of adventure and accomplishment, edged by disaster.

Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick over acrylic paint on panel, 2023, through a rainbow as a lens into the landscape. The many layers of l...

In Japan, the fox or kitsune, even in modern day, is a disorienting shape-shifter who causes one to lose their way Figurative II Series, acrylic paint on canvas, brings forth the sp...

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...

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...

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 ...

Monks Series, # I, 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 re...

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...

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 ...

Playing with Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Until we impose time structure on children, they have a deep connection to the present moment. Their play is an ea...

Dancing with Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Embodied in the multiple aspects of movement, we dance to tyme, through tyme, and in tyme People who believe in ...

Tyme Capsule, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. The encapsulation of time takes a variety of forms with technological aids like cameras, video, and recordings that pac...

Tyme Generator, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Materialistic societies connect time to productivity. In another layer of reality, we are free to creatively generate...

Love Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2400. We have all experienced how tyme’s absorption in love has a different quality, whether falling in, worrying over a loved o...

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...

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...

Diptych Ribs of Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. Ribs infer a biological or even geological structure. In this study, we are taking time out of the world of co...

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...

Stone Lantern in Tyme I, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. In the metaphor of lanterns of light, they open tyme/space, but they can also close it down. A flickering la...

Stone Lantern in Tyme II, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2024. The symbols inherent in the gorintō, the stone lantern, are: the cube (Earth) representing stability, groun...

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-...

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 ...

Nest, acrylic paint on rough wood, 12” X 26” X 1”. A great hand holds an egg containing a nest. This image disrupts the linear interconnection, inviting another arena of wholeness an...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. At this moment, for a birthday, they are held together in calm by the prospect of another year, standi...

Figurative II Series, acrylic paint on canvas, brings forth the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth, and dream. The archetypal figures, aspects of us, reveal layers of reali...

The Seeker leaves the known to discover and explore the unknown. This inner rugged individual braves loneliness and isolation to seek out new paths. Often oppositional. This iconocla...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax, a transparent layering with oil paint over acryl...

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...

Princess Leia from Star Wars surprised me by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defia...

Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...

Figurative I Guardian, acrylic on canvas, 2015. Even in modern-day Japan, the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inher...

Figurative I Bedouin Angel, acrylic on canvas, 2017. This image came from a waking dream. Through an auditory hallucination of the repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind, the ima...

Figurative I, acrylic paintings on canvas, have an archetypal quality, which initiates transmission through the character. They come from different cultures, times, and moments of ma...

The blackboard formula in the painting Slip-of-Self is a qubit. Qubit as a non-binary computer does not function on memory but possibility, not moving only vertically or horizontally...

Blackboard Series arose from an experience of three different images surrounded by a dense blackness of substance that could be marked on and erased like a blackboard. This suggested...

The blackboard formula in the painting Slip-of-Self is a qubit. Qubit, as a non-binary computer, does not function on memory but possibility, not moving only vertically or horizontal...

Abstract II Absence of Impetus, Acrylic paint on canvas. Impetus denotes the transmission of power from mover to moved. Want of impetus is not necessarily a lack of impetus. L...

After living and working in the various disciplines of Japanese culture from long-bow archery to tea ceremony Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No longer p...

Abstract II: Bow to the Frontier, acrylic paint, tissue, decorative paper, and impasto textures, on canvas, 2010. Bow to the Frontier acknowledges the border between thresholds and t...

Living in Japan and working in the various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. N...

After living and working in the various disciplines of Japanese culture, from long-bow archery to tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No longer...

With acrylic paint, tissue, decorative paper, and impasto textures, we meet the frontiers and thresholds, metaphoric and literal, that require humility. A Bow is required at the Fro...

Triptych Game of Capture-Collagraph prints on tissue paper with cold wax and oilpaint on canvas. This triptych, printed off the surface of textured shrine panels, depicts the feminin...

Diptych Landscape Pogonip-cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas, 2025. There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshon...

Amulet, metal object with rust paint mixed media on wood panel, 2020. Amulet, on a wood panel, applied rust and acrylic paint and mixed media, suggests how an object is precious as i...

The first layer of this painting was an ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword. The next layer that emerged, influenced by the Monk Series, was the outline of a trad...

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...

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 Pathways: cold wax, printed tissue paper, graphite, handmade paper, oil sticks on panels, suggest the pathways that are fundamental to navigating this world, only recognized ...

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

Animal II Series acrylic paintings on canvas express the relationship between humans and animals as mediums for diviners, guides, and visionaries. Some show animals in the act of bec...

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

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

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