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Mendicant Monk/Woman Warrior-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Monks Series: Monk I-Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Layers of Reality Series acknowledges that we can alter our created perceptions in practice by dropping down beneath what we perceive as “the reality” into another stream of informat...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: One Who Sees Through 2023 -Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
One Who Sees Through Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper & oil stick has the vision to enter thresholds. There are Taoist glyphs of magic to open those doors where sh...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: JoyFool-Cold wax, tissue paper & oil stick on acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
JoyFool, with acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick, evolved from the fool as I inquired into the difference between joy and happiness leading to the insight th...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Jaw of the Ancestors-Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprint, tissue paper & oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors are lined up through instructional patterns. Above them ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at attention below. Ancestors...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Ancestors: Moon Drummer-Acrylic paint, cold wax, tissue paper & oil stic
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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....
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Bird-Woman - Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint &
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Bird-Woman acrylic, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper and oil stick embraces polarity manipulating the strings that look to be the x-ray of a mouth. A toy top swirls in her cape, ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors: Ringmaster Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint monoprints
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This painting of acrylic and cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas, Ringmaster, is in the guise of a Japanese lord. The ringmaster is ever the showman with his vision on circus ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors Ascending cold wax, oil paint and printed paper on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors is a series using cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints. The series explores, through transparent layers of overlapping images, the subtle ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Monoprint

Figures II: Bow at the Frontier-acrylic and mixed media on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures in acrylic paint on canvas are connected to the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Ancient One-Acrylic painting, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Hierophant Acrylic paint, cold wax, oil paint & paper on canvas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Portrait of Other, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas takes place in a major threshold. Looking through the threshold into a portrait of someone, or something somewhere that is no...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Ancestors at the Threshold-Cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, acrylic paint
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors at the Threshold with cold wax tissue paper monoprints on canvas tells of the intersection of worlds where directions are altered, going forward and going back. It presents...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Portrait of Other-Acrylic painting, tissue paper, large monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Ancestors, is a series using cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints. The series explores, through transparent layers of overlapping images, the subtle...
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2010s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Diptych Ancestor in Transit-Cold wax, tissue paper monoprints on canvas.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This diptych, Ancestor in Transit, shows ancestors journeying and pausing in their journey with their small traveling bundles. The backdrop is the liminal space between worlds evokin...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Monoprint

Shield-Cold wax oil stick, graphite, tissue paper, attached brass piece on panel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shield, with oil paint and laminated cold wax layers of marked tissue paper, captures a sense of the protection of the everyday world from our awareness of other realms of reality. T...
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2010s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings

Materials

Brass

Figures II: Women Fold-timeless family of women on canvas, large acrylic format.
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. They are held together with calmness and devotion as they stand in a field of lavender. In the series...
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2010s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figures II: Bear with Leia
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Princess Leia surprised me, by showing up with my customary bear guardian. She is a strong female symbol in popular culture, representing courage, leadership, and defiance against op...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figures II: Shaman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Shaman, acrylic on canvas, in a broad stance manipulates the nine boxes seeming to float in the air. This is an archetypal presence of the one who gets information from the beyond, s...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative I Guardian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Even in modern day Japan the relationship between the physical world and one of the spirits is complex. Demons or yōkai are not inherently good or bad, but rather encompass a wide ra...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative II Conjuror
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves. The Conju...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figurative I Bedouin Angel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
This image came from the experience of a waking dream where through auditory hallucination of a repetitive slap of a tent flap in the wind the image of the Bedouin Angel appeared. ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figures II: Guardian Bear with Blue Wings, Large Format Painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Large format acrylic painting on canvas. A guardian bear envelops an unclothed woman with protective wings, offering solace as she contemplates her vulnerability. Triple X is a sig...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figures II: Light-Coat Shifting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures in acrylic paint on canvas are connected to the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative II: Fox Spirit Around Neck
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Fox Spirit around Neck, acrylic paint, graphite on canvas. In Japan the fox or kitsune, even in modern day references, is a disorienting deity that causes one to lose one’s way. In ...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Figurative II: Fox Spirit at Waist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals and other ways via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of us whi...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Abstract II Time Tender
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite

Our Lady with Wings, Large Format Mixed Media 44 in x 30 in
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Large format acrylic painting with cold wax, oil stick and layers of marked tissue paper introduces a new way of relating to materials and creating context. Through the layers of tis...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel, Monoprint

Partners with Owl Spirit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
In the series Figurative II, the figures are connected to the spirit world through animals via folklore, myth and dream. They are archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves which expos...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Figurative I Blackboard Series: Wellspring
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Image of Wellspring from Black Board Series, experienced on Molokai as spirit of demi-urge is grounded not to the earth but through it. With feet planted, head back, weight is lifted...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blackboard Series: Slip-of-Self
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Acrylic

Figurative I Blackboard Series: Sumo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Sumo wrestler is painted on blackboard on canvas with blackboard paint. The mathematical formula, U=abs (I---(C – B)) formula for Uncertainty from the research biologist Michael Dick...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Figurative I Light Bearer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The Seeker leaves the known to discover and explore the unknown. This inner rugged individual brave loneliness and isolation to seek out new paths. Often oppositional. This iconoclas...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figurative I Consultation
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Figurative I The Gift
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through radiating character. They come from different cultures, times and moments o...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figurative I One-in-Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Figurative I Dancer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
These figurative acrylic paintings on canvas have an archetypal quality inviting in a transmission through character. They come from different cultures, times and moments of manifest...
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2010s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Abstract II Absence of Impetus
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Impetus denotes the transmission of power, even attach. We over value the transmission of power from mover to the object moved. Lack of impetus is not necessarily want of impetus.
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Graphite

Abstract II Absence of Impetus
Abstract II Absence of Impetus
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Abstract II Sorted
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Abstract II Skyline
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Abstract investigation of the world with acrylic paint and tissue paper leads to known-unknown, demarcation of sky meeting earth, sea, buildings or something out there. How we see wh...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Tissue Paper

Abstract II Skyline
Abstract II Skyline
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Abstract II Basket
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
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2010s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract II Basket
Abstract II Basket
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Abstract II: Countries
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Countries do not recognize the deep time of the earth. Borders come and go faster than rivers and mountains. The peopling of the earth is filled with stories, songs and dreams of the...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract II: Countries
Abstract II: Countries
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Abstract II: Bow to the Frontier
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Bow to the Frontier acknowledges the border between thresholds and that frontiers requires a humbling of self. It is to place ourselves in the role to acquiesce to the breadth that s...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract II Edges Between
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract II Amulet
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Amulet, on a wood panel with rust and acrylic paint with mixed media, suggests how an object becomes precious, serving as talisman for orientation in the perils of the world. After...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Metal

Diptych Crows with Doors
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Crows like ravens are messengers of the other side that bring timely news not always appreciated. They symbolize change, transformation, and the beginning of something new. This enta...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Abstract II Seeds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
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...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Bear with Leia
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Popular culture shows up in our psyches. Here Princess Leia, a hero of space odyssey, is interacting with one of Majio’s reoccurring bear figures. Majio’s decade in Japanese culture...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Fox Arms
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
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Early 2000s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Becoming Bear
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Becoming an animal is a shaman’s method of healing and gaining information, but it also happens to us. We become animals, sometimes only recognized by those closest to us. Children e...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Turning into Something with Teeth
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Fox Divination
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
For many people across the planet, from modern day Japan to the Dogon people of Mali in West Africa, foxes are supernatural beings. Their markings along the river are used to divine ...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

13. Animals I: Horse on Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Blue Wings
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals II: Owlman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals I: Coyote with Ladder
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts the individual presence of animals, strongly influenced by the enchanted land of New Mexico. Animal iconography is woven deeply throughout three...
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2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals I: Horse on Gold
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Animals I: Entangled
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Animals I: Young-Coyote-Out of Sorts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Acrylic paint on small canvas depicts Young Coyote learning the trade of trickster, not just as a folk story but as archetype that walks among the communities in New Mexico, turning ...
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2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Animals I : Being Walked
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Majio’s decade in Japanese culture sensitized her to animistic belief that everything has a beingness which augmented her yearly retreats to New Mexico where the animal life and weat...
Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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