Thursday, April 15, 2010

BIRD WOMAN/ figurative ceramic goddess sculpture




                                            Bird Woman
                                            2010
                                            by Eric Whollem
                                            business card
                                                                         Copyright by the artist

SEA GREEN SKIES/ a painting incorporating a linear style based on petroglyphs from California Indian rock art

                               


               Sea Green Skies
               1986
               by Eric Whollem
               Collection of the artist
               6 x 9"
                          Copyright by the artist.

SCRYING THE BERYL STONE/ a geometric figurative abstraction rendered in mixed media/ DIGITAL ART

                                                 



                                                    Scrying the Beryl Stone
                                                    1992-2010
                                                    mixed media digital art
                                                    Collection of the artist.
                                                                                        Copyright by the artist.
  

The Beryl Stone

My painting of Rosebone, painted in 1972, contained
a red orb. This was the Beryl Stone. See my post of 
March 19, 2010 for the whole story.

THE DESERT OF MATERIALISM/ a visionary mixed media painting/ A FIGURATIVE ABSTRACTION



                                                  
                                                  
                                                      The Desert of Materialism
                                                       1984
                                                       by Eric Whollem
                                                       Collection of the artist
                                                       6 x 9"
                                                              Copyright by the artist.

The Desert of the World of Matter

Most people in the world today strive to accumulate
things. This search is a vain one, according to the
teachings of religious masters like Buddha and Jesus,
who advocated spiritual detachment.

The Existentialist philosophers also bemoan the
fruitlessness of worldly things. But usually they arrive
at a form of despair, which gives them no comfort.

The image above is a loose interpretation of religious
icons from Russia, showing a crouching man seeking
water in a dry streambed in the desert.

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Readers interested in my posts on Spirituality may want to see:

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My gallery of Abstract Art may be seen here:

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Abstract art, mixed media painting, spirituality, metaphysical art