L’Impossible Monsieur Bébé, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
I Listen to the Old Bray of My Heart , Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Exit, Pursued by Bears, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Never Stray from the Path, Never Eat a Windfall Apple, Never Trust a Man whose Eyebrows Meet, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
A Frog Floating in the Drugstore Jar Summer Rain on Grey Pavements, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Which from Our Pretty Lambs We Pull, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Letting Legend like Dried Mud Drop, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
And the Snowflake of Their Enchantment Melts, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Comme Un Conte de la Mère Oye, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
Carrying His Own House Still, Still is at Home, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023
L’Impossible Monsieur Bébé, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Leo constellation. Cheetah running. Claire Heliot, German lion tamer. Mythical sea-lion. MGM logo, featuring Leo the lion. The Cowardly Lion as portrayed by Bert Lahr in 1939 The Wizard of Oz. Strength tarot card. The Hungry Tiger of Oz. Una and the Lion of Edward Spencer’s epic 16th century poem The Faerie Queen. The Tyger by William Blake. The Lion’s Bride, based off silent movie from 1919 and painting by Gabriel Cornelius Max. Big cat books. Tiger Beer. Cheetos. Big cats cartoon characters. Siegfried and Roy. Panther lamp. Frosted Flakes. Original stuffed animal Tigger. Daniel the Tiger of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood. Tipu’s Tiger automaton. The Death of Munrow Staffordshire pottery. Poster art from the 1938 movie Bringing up Baby. Tiger from Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Jaguar sports car. The Leopard of Rudraprayag, man eating male leopard of the 1920s. Indian Leopard boy. Tiger lilies. Hall and Oates song Maneater.
I Listen to the Old Bray of My Heart , Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Donkeys as beasts of burden. Donkey nannies. Donkey milk soap. Donkey Toys. Cleopatra bathing in sour donkey milk. Aesop’s Fable, The Ass in the Lion’s Skin. Bacchus, Roman god of wine and festivity, riding Disney’s Jacchus, from Fantasia. Donkey related poetry. The original Eeyore stuffed animal. The quote “I am. I am. I am” from Sylvia Plath’s Bell Jar. French fairytale, Donkey Skin. Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island. Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey. Edward the Donkey by Philippe Dumas. Donkey-hide gelatin. Disney’s The Flying Gauchito. Donkey puns. Donkey books. Nick Bottom of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Exit, Pursued by Bears, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: The Lonely Doll by Dare Wright. Honey bear. Real Christoper Robin and Winnie the Pooh with Winnie illustration. Yellowstone National Park Do not feed bear signs. Yogi Bear and Jellystone Park. Tender Heart Care Bear. Bee skep. Smokey the Bear. Paddington Bear. Polar Bear Coffee. Rupert, The Berenstain Bears and Corduroy kids’ books. Teddy Ruxpin. Klondike Bar. Gummy bears. Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale’s Antigonus exiting, pursued by a bear. Pursued by Bear wine. State ‘o’ Maine from John Irving’s Hotel New Hampshire. Sir Stamford Raffles pet sun bear who enjoyed champagne. Lord Sebastian Flyte and his teddy bear Aloysius from Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Archibald Ormsby-gore, teddy-bear of English poet laureate John Betjeman, and model for Alyosius in Brideshead. Teddy Roosevelt and his namesake Teddy Bear. Bear cave painting at Chauvet. Bear-grass. Octave of the film The Rules of the Game dressed as bear. Erotic novel Bear by Marian Engel. Bear skin rug. Greek nymph Callisto transformed into she-bear, with son Arcas at her side. Ursa Major and Ursa Minor constellations. Bear baiting statue. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Never Stray from the Path, Never Eat a Windfall Apple, Never Trust a Man whose Eyebrows Meet, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Howling at the moon. Beast of Gévaudan. Disney’s The Three Little Wolves. Aesop’s fable The Wolf and the Crane. Brothers Grimm tale The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats. Wolfsbane. Lupine. Wolf-fart Puffball mushrooms. Wolf songs and poems. Little Red Riding Hood as pin-up. Wolf eyes. Big Bad wolf as grandma. Big Bad Wolf blowing down piggy’s straw house. Wolf man. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Peter and the Wolf. The Company of Wolves movie. Wolf from The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Victor of Aveyron, feral wolf child. Wolf toys. Romulus and Remus with She-Wolf. Feral wolf daughter of Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Fenrir, Wolf God of Norse mythology. Sköll and Hati, sons of Fenrir, chasing the sun and moon.
A Frog Floating in the Drugstore Jar Summer Rain on Grey Pavements, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Japanese myth of giant toads who breathe out rainbows and use them to slide prey into their mouths. Atari 2600 Frogger video game. Artist Daniel Johnston’s “Jeremiah the Innocent”. Aogaeru, frog spirit and minor character in Miyazaki’s Spirited Away. Mr. Toad of the Wind and the Willows and Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride at Disney Land. Finnish folklore custom of burying a frog in a miniature coffin for ritualistic reasons. Leap frog. Warner Bros’ Michigan J. Frog. The proverb of the frog in the frying pan. Hallucinogenic frogs. Kermit the Frog and the Rainbow Connection. The meteorological phenomenon of raining frogs. The Frog Princess folktale. Keroppi, Japanese cartoon character. The Frog Prince poem by Anne Sexton. The Aesop Fable of The Frog and the Mouse. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, short story by Mark Twain. Cháng’e, the Chinese goddess of the moon, and the toad she rode. Froggie Went a-Courtin’ fairytale. The Blue Bird, French fairytale. Frog reproduction. Frog mutation. Frog dissection. Frog legs as food. Toadstools. Toadstones in Shakespeare’s As You Like It.
Which from Our Pretty Lambs We Pull, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: The Shepherdess, painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, legendary zoophyte. Lambchop, puppet. Lambchop, food. Shepherd’s Pie. Lamb Toys. Counting Sheep. Phrixus and Helle of the Greek myth The Golden Fleece. Rumplestiltskin from the poem of the same name by Anne Sexton. Marie Antoinette as simple shepherdess with Montauciel, sheep famous for going up in a Montgolfier Brother’s hot air balloon as Versailles. Hermes, patron god of flocks, herds, and shepherds. Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Sheep wool and knitting. “Spring” lamb. Lamb nannies. Mary had a little lamb. Mother Goose’s Baa Baa Black Sheep. Lamb and sheep books. The Lamb, literary pub in London. Lamb and sheep poems. Aries Ram constellation. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Gentle Heart Lamb, Care Bear cartoon character. Buford the Little Bighorn by Bill Peet.
Letting Legend like Dried Mud Drop, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Norse Goddess Freya and her battle boar, Hildisvíni. Miss Piggy in Pigs in Space. Julia Child with mallet and suckling pig in lap. Boar beast of Walter Crane’s Beauty and the Beast. Pig toys. Original stuffed animal of Piglet, wearing convenience store Piggly Wiggly cap. Crommyonian Sow and Calydonian Boar, battle boars and mother and daughter. Toby the Learned Pig. ‘Pigskin’ football. Pork rinds. Pig nun from Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights. This Little Piggy went to Market. Piggy bank. Pig in a blanket. Pigs in a blanket, finger food. G.K. Chesterton quote. Greek sacred pig statue found at the ancient worship site of Eleusis. Greek goddess Circe, daughter of the sun, who turns men into swine in Homer’s The Odyssey. Alice and Wonderland and the pig baby. The Three Little Pigs. Piggy of Lord of the Flies with Porky Pig as Beelzebub. When pigs fly.
And the Snowflake of Their Enchantment Melts, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Swan poems. ‘Swan song’. The Ugly Duckling. Odile and Odette of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. The Swan King, Ludwig II of Bavaria and his castle, Neuschwanstein. Cygnus constellation. The Six Swans, Brothers Grimm fairytale. Swan Orchids. Anna Pavlova and her swan Jack. Seven swans a swimming. Greek god Apollo in Swan chariot. Cygnus, Greek god, transformed into swan at his death. Marlene Dietrich in swan dress at 1935 costume party. Bjork in swan dress at 2001 Oscars holding her album, Vespertine, which was inspired by Leda and the Swan. Swan music box. Swan advertising and products. Swan origami. Pavlova’s toe shoes. Swan toy. Leda and the Swan statue and painting.
Comme Un Conte de la Mère Oye, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included: Geese in flight formation. Eagle killing goose in Homer’s The Odysssey. Gray Goose Airlines. Barnacle Goose Myth. White Goose Foot flower. Goose puns and sayings. Mother Goose. Aphrodite, Greek goddess, riding goose. Nemesis,Greek goddess, turning into goose to thwart the advances of Zeus in the body of a swan. Goose with angel wing syndrome. The Three Graces in a chariot pulled by geese. Baby geese. Toy geese. Boy with goose sculpture attributesd to Greek sculptor Boëthus. Six geese a laying. The Goose who laid the golden egg. Veruca Salt of Willy Wonka falling down the bad egg shoot. Grey goose vodka. Gray Goose Laws, Grágás, a collection of Icelandic laws from around the 12th century. Goose quill pen. Goose roast. Mary Goose tombstone. The Goose Girl, Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
Carrying His Own House Still, Still is at Home, Marker and Colored Pencil on Cotton Paper, 24" x 18", 2023References included:Author Patricia Highsmith, snail enthusiast and introvert, who was known to bring a purse full of snails to parties. Snails as plant vessels. Snails as houses. Racing Snail from The NeverEnding Story. Snail of Pinocchio. Dreamworks Turbo animation. Hélène van Zuylen, nicknamed ‘The Snail’, first woman to ever car race. Snails racing. Dali’s interest in snails in his painting and sculpture. The Snail and the Rose-Tree, Hans Christian Anderson. Aesop’s Fable of The Snail and the Statue. Snails mating. Cupid shooting love darts. The Snail House in Sofia, Bulgaria. Snail Toys. Disney’s The Little Mermaid snail. Gary the snail of SpongeBob Squarepants. Snail Mail. Lefty the snail. Great Glass Sea Snail of Dr. Doolittle. Escargot. The medieval interest in snails. Snail cosmetological serum. Matisse’s The Snail. Brian the snail from The Magic Roundabout TV show. Nerites, Greek Demi-God, turned into sea snail by Poseidon.
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