The paintings are new (well, one of them is a do-over which was augmented from a previous painting) and the other is new.
The red & black & white one is called Ready to Take Flight and was the one augmented from an abstract portrait I did of my (soon-to-be-ex) husband; which basically looked like a big red & black vortex ... All the hopeful, added, bird-like looking part is new ...
This is what it originally looked like:
The other one, the woman in the lotus-like-looking flame with the VanGoghish-looking sky, is called From Assent to Ascension.
The other new pieces are Submission, Goddess of Strength, & Armor ... well Submission is new, Goddess of Strength is an older drawing I stumbled upon in one of my sketchbooks I just found, and Armor is a piece I drew during World Poetry Days at Saint John Fisher and recently altered.
Submission
Goddess of Strength
Armor
The photos included in the show are 4 altered photographs from the Native American Dance & Music Festival, featured in my first art show and Haz Mat Literary Review, and 4 unaltered photos: 2 of which were included in the Pathways & Doors Exhibit I was part of for the Rochester Ink Festival.
The altered photos from the Dance & Music Festival are titled: Wind Song, Shadow Dancing, Stolen Lands, and Edges of Invisisibility.
The unaltered photos from Pathways and Doors are titled Concrete Meditations (which appeared in Pathways and Doors as Ayden) and Post & Barn.
The two other unaltered photos are photos I took of rocks (which I do quite often since rocks are one of my odd obsessions).
One - Zen Rock - is a large rock with long grass plastered across it which reminded me of a yin-yang. The other are two rocks embedded in a drive in Naples, which reminded me of a mother & child, and is therefore titled Mother & Child.
(The concept of Mother & Child is another one of those obsessions I have which repeats itself in my work quite frequently.)
The final piece is an oil pastel drawing of a mother & child I drew for my sister-in-law for mother's day while she was pregnant. It reads: Hold Close with Open Arms.
So, for those of you who could not make it ... here is your virtual tour ... All that's missing is the bio & the cup of coffee ... The bio I can add, the cup of coffee ... well ... meet me at Blue Dahlia some week and I'll tell you which is my favorite!
