153 results for "majio"

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: Countries, acrylic paint, tissue paper, graphite on canvas, 2016. Countries’ boundaries do not recognize the Earth’s deep time. Borders come and go faster than rivers an...

Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply influenced aesthetically and by the content of Japanese culture. Her cra...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Skyline, acrylic on canvas, is an abstract investigation of the world with acrylic paint and tissue paper leading to the known as well as the unknown. As in the demarcation of sky me...

In Instruments Waiting, acrylic paint, gold, and rust, handmade paper with tissue paper conjure a sense of something found in an ancient site, yet to be identified. These instruments...

The Fan-Shape Series represents how an iconic image manifests with many connotations. Like oracular coins, these fan shapes look like sonograms foretelling the immediate future of a ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The materials are acrylic paint, and simple marking implements of graphite and Art Graf. Art Graf is a water-soluble media that comes in tailor’s squares, easily fitting into the han...

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 ...

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...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

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...

Cross-Roads has a highly textured surface on canvas with rusted metal and handmade paper. It echoes the adage that one should not confuse the world with our perception of it, or the ...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

Becoming an animal is a shaman’s method of healing and gaining knowledge, and so for us. The animals we turn into are only recognized sometimes by those closest to us. Children can e...

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...

The Woman found Playing with Arms, in a private moment as an infant, amazed by toes, she considers her arms in a new light. It is a new perception of everydayness. Small paintings ...

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

This woman in Playing with Surf is caught with her hands in the playful ocean surf. Perhaps she stands at the kitchen sink, a baby’s crib, or at the shore in contemplation, creating ...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

Tango Boardgame Series: Alchemic Tango with acrylic paint, cold wax and rust paint and decorative paper on panel. Alchemy is an ancient proto-scientific and philosophical tradition o...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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,...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Tango Boardgame with Markers-acrylic paint, graphite, decorative paper, found objects and marked tissue paper on canvas. The board game of life, as with tango, metamorphically has ma...

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...

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...

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...

Fourth Wall, acrylic, cold wax and oil stick, paper on canvas is from theater jargon. It indicates the breakthrough of the rehearsed script to include the audience. Once the fourth w...

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...