Majio at Studio Anavami

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indigeno...

Diptych Sky Trees at Dawn, Art Graf, pastel on Rives BFK. On the island of Moloka’i the sky is as alive as the sea and land, changing theatrically without notice. It is not out there...

Diptych Moloka’i Spirit Dances, Art Graf, monoprint, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. The island natives appear to be part of the earth. With a swinging gait, their body language is ...

Diptych San Miguel Cobblestone, acrylic paint, Art Graf, graphite rubbings, tissue paper on watercolor paper. High heels, boots with spurs, and straw sandals all in personal dialogue...

Diptych San Miguel Comida, Art Graf, graphite, monoprints, tissue paper on watercolor paper, a two-tabled neighborhood eatery wraps tacos in checkered paper. San Miguel de Allende h...

Diptych San Miguel Comida, Art Graf, graphite, monoprints, tissue paper on watercolor paper, a two-tabled neighborhood eatery wraps tacos in checkered paper. San Miguel de Allende h...

Moloka’i Beach, Art Graf, impasto textures, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. On this island, to prevent us from flying away, there is a sense that our great central sun fastens each ...

Diptych Moloka’i Shell Dreams, Art Graf, rubber printing masks, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. As everything on the island is animate, these shells have their shell business with t...

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,...

Moloka’i Dancers, sumi ink, Art Graf, vintage discharged kimono on Rives BFK, 2021. Moloka’i natives, without inhibitions, breast flying, appendages flapping, arise in rhythm through...

Diptych Moloka’i Shrine, monoprints with asemic calligraphy, graphite and tissue paper, 2021. Neighborhood shrines, both subtle and obvious mark general attitudes towards the earth a...

Basket is a special kind of container opened at the top, bottom or both. It is woven with natural fibers and can carry fish or fire. As one of the human’s first receptacles no matter...

Living in Japan and working in various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No lo...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

Crows like ravens are messengers of the other side, bringing timely news not always appreciated. They symbolize change, transformation, and the beginning of something new, requiring ...

Tableau on wood with metallic gold paint sets off an iconic tango embrace. This moment of visceral improvisation requires a deep center axis of balance for each dancer as well as the...

On wood with a gold background, the small Tango Paper Doll series is informed by several cultural and historical layers. The tabs on the paper dolls suggest the figures can be tried ...

An ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword becomes a traditional monk still seen in the streets of Kyoto with a rounded hat and begging bowl. The over-layered images ...

Guardian Bear with Blue Wings, acrylic on canvas from a retreat in Ojo Caliente Hot Springs in New Mexico, brought forth this protective presence that has lingered ever since. Unperc...

Diptych Ritual Tally, layers of marked tissue, graphite, cold wax, and Art Graf, on Arches, 2020. The ritual of keeping track of things is not always meticulous or accurate, and yet ...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonialization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indig...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonialization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indig...

Diptych Lost and Found, graphite, cold wax, tissue, and mulberry paper on Arches, Losing things and finding things is a ritual repeated throughout our days. Sometimes inconsequently...

Thresholds, entries, and apertures are not always marked discreetly, but require a ritual pause before entry. The pause contains a gathering of wherewithal. It is an energetic practi...

Diptych Ritual Break, cold wax, Art Graf (water-soluble drawing materials) on Rives BFK, there is a definitive break. Breaks are hard, overdue, temporary, or eternal, most often out ...

Art still has a shamanic component that is often unrecognized, yet nevertheless functions through symbols. Symbols here are not a psychological interpretation, but rather work you as...

Diptych Ritual Meeting, Art Graf graphite, mulberry paper, impasto texture on tissue paper on Rives BFK. A meeting in its complexity is not grounded in time or space but in the body,...

Ancient One, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas is staged with fluttering gingko leaves, the oldest living tree species predating dinosaurs. The central image is hand to mouth---h...

Ancestors are lined up through instructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at at...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

Ancestors, a new series using cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints, explores through transparent layers of overlapping images the subtle awareness a...

Ancestors with a brass shield on a wood panel with oil paint and laminated cold wax layers of marked tissue paper, capture a sense of the protection in the everyday world from what w...

JoyFool with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, and oil stick, evolved from an inquiry into the difference between joy and happiness. This led to the insight that h...

Hierophant with acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas is the interpreter of the mysteries with the X-ray of a mouth in her hands. She transmits wisdom from a structu...

One Who Sees Through, on canvas with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open thos...

Bird-Woman, acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, oil stick on canvas, embraces polarity as she manipulates puppet strings, an X-ray of the mouth. A toy top swirls in...

Ancestors at the Threshold, with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas, tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered. The possibility of going forward or ba...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

Moon Drummer, acrylic paint base with cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick is an archetypal figure standing in the surf with forests sprouting from her head and shoulders...

The Ringmaster is in the guise of a Japanese feudal lord, acrylic paint with cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas. Ever the showman, his lordship’s vision relates to Juvenal, ...

In Triptych Ritual Protection, graphite on Art Graf, impasto relief on Reeves BFK, the umbrella symbolizes protection. Do we not shield and are shielded, with our caring and invocati...

In Skateboard Series: Underfoot I, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and collage, the skateboarder reads the traveling surface like braille, making instantaneous decisions through the bod...

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. A comment in downtown Kyoto on an exquisitely dressed woman may in...

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...