Goddess Lunch Wood Print

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We see here three goddesses of pleasure, fertility, life and death and war and peace having a ladies' lunch somewhere in LA. The Goddess of Crete with her snakes and cat, the Hindu goddess Kali in a mellow mood, and the Ho' of Babylon in her LA incarnation, are drinking wine and eating weapons of war. The weapons will be consumed and turned into fertilizer to heal the Earth.

I live and work in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My perception of things is expressed in a narrative, story-telling form. The style is cartoon-influenced, yet painterly; sometimes refined, sometimes crude. In recent years I have been moving toward a more Cartoon-Realist approach. I want a simpler look, where I can get the utmost expression out of each line, and each brushstroke expresses energy. My influences range from the scenes of everyday life pictured in the margins of medieval manuscripts, Late Medieval and early Renaissance art, Indian narrative folk painting, classic European Surrealism, Latin American Fantastic Realism and Mexican Social Commentary, comics and graphic novels. I draw my subjects from daily life, news stories,...