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Titled Nekhen from my Great Ennead collection, 2023. The Great Ennead was a grouping of nine deities in ancient Egypt. The city of Nekhen, also known as Hierakonpolis (meaning City of Hawks, a reference to Horus) was a religious and political capital of Upper Egypt about 3100 BC.

Titled Cactus de Jade from my Death Masks collection, 2024. Inspired by Indigenous American masks and their religious use of hallucinogens.

Titled Huckleberry from my True Myths collection, 2025. A tribute to actor Val Kilmer (1959-2025), the movie Tombstone (1993) and the portrayed Doc Holliday (1851-1887). “I’m Your Huckleberry.”

Thanks for "The Storm"!

Attributed to Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian from 2,000 years ago. I found the quote in The Storm Before the Storm by Mike Duncan. It seems that nothing changes… time for some Reckless Action!

Titled Lies Sidway from my Into the Dark collection, 2025. Inspired by an Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) photograph of a Crow man, Lies Sideway, from1908. In my treatment the main character displays the spirit of someone important in his life.

Titled Strong for the People from my Still There collection, 2023. My inspiration was a photo of Penahwenonmi (Helping Another, 1840-1938), a survivor of the Nez Perce War (1877).She and the Nez Perce call themselves Nimíipuu (the Real People). Nez Perce women were active participants in the war.

Titled Cabbage from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration – this is especially true of irises. By pushing the imagery around I may have turned y iris into a Cabbage.

Titled Viola from my Glass Iris collection, 2025. Flowers aren’t often my inspiration… but here you go, I’m a phytologist. Viola is Latin for violet.

Ten of my recent BluSky art listings with assorted themes: Wounded Knee, artist friends, Dante’s Inferno, an Italian dark forest, French Romantics, Greek Bulls, silent movie stars, Indigenous spirits, and spirt portals.

Titled Wounded Knee from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met]. In my mind the image presents an American Indian spirit figure, a ghost dancer. The Wounded Knee Massacre (Dec 1890) killed 250 Lakota men, women and children.

Titled Homeland from my I’m a Better Artist than You collection, 2022. Inspired by one of my best artist friends [that I’ve never met].

Titled Dis from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). At the end Dante finds the Devil at the bottom of the last of 9 levels of Hell. Dis is the Roman name for the underground god.

Titled Bice from my Selva Oscura [Italian: Dark Forest] collection, 2025. Inspired by The Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno, the narrative poem by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). Bice or Beatrice, is a symbol of Divine Love and is an important female character in Dante’s works [and real life].

An older BluSky post that I thought needed a few more eyes. Titled Reflection from my Mujer de Arenisca collection, 2024. Mujer de Arenisca is Sandstone Woman in Spanish. Piece was inspired by the art of Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823), a French Romantic painter and draughtsman.

A BluSky repost for Greek Moothology fans. Titled Pasiphaë from my Bouillon Cubes collection, 2025. Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur monster. Minos insulted Posiden’s gift of a white bull, the god caused Pasiphaë to fall in love with the bull resulting in the monster.

Titled The Great Lover from my Silent Men collection, 2024. Inspired by a publicity photo of American film actor, John [Jack] Gilbert (1897–1936). He rose to fame during the silent era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover." Jack’s career declined with Talkies and alcohol.

Titled Blusa Amarilla [Spanish: Yellow Blouse] from my De Larva Reali [Italian: From Royal Larvae] collection, 2024. Inspired by an early publicity photo of American actress, Joan Crawford (1904–1977). Her career started as a dancer, then to Broadway, then movies and then top box office movies.

Titled Tobe Spirit from my Portals collection, 2025. The piece depicts an American Indian, a “spirit to be”, a ghost, waiting in a Chaco Canyon Purgatory. At the back of the rooms is a doorway/portal to another level of the underworld, but the ghost subject must wait until the right time comes.

Titled Lucy from my Portals collection, 2025. Inspired by an 1899 photo of an Oglala woman, Lucy Red Cloud Afraid of Horse (1881-1938). She seems to have spent her life in South Dakota. I’ve made Lucy a guide at the entrance to a portal to the Underworld.

Four of my recent BluSky art listings: A Chavin Spider. A fanciful SR-71, Blackbird. stack of Centipedes. A Human Skull.

My recent BluSky art listings with an Indigenous American theme: Standing Bear & habeas corpus. Omaha Dancer. Ada Blackjack & Wrangel Island (north of Siberia). Death at the Carlisle Indian School. Six on the Bear. Benjamin Damon (Diné).

Titled Standing Bear from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo from about 1898 of Standing Bear (1829–1908), a Ponca chief who successfully argued in the U.S. District Court in 1879 in Omaha that Native Americans have the right of habeas corpus -- sounds like current events.

Titled Omaha Dancer from my Out of the Dark collection, 2024. Inspired by a photo by Frank Rinehart (1861-1928) from the 1898 Indian Congress [in conjunction with Trans-Mississippi International Exposition]. The Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date.

This is a repost of 4 of my earlier BlueSky art posts – maybe abstracts, but the images originate from real objects. 1) History, an Isthmian gold Royal Flycatcher; 2) Trompeta del Jaguar, a Moche ceramic horn; 3) Seventh Heaven, an Aztec god; and 4) After Icarus, constructed from crushed auto cubes.

Titled Punishment from my Artic Hero series, 2025. Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), an Iñupiaq on an all white male expedition to Wrangel Island, north of Siberia. She was treated poorly by the other members [to include being tied to a flagpole] - but Ada and a pet cat were the only expedition survivors.

Titled Tomiclock from my Alaska collection, 2025. In 1897 six children from AK traveled 5,000 to The Carlisle Indian School in PA - Tomiclock was one of them, an Iñupiaq. Of the six, 3 died at Carlisle and only one ever returned to AK. Tomiclock died a 15 year old “Eskimo” girl at Carlisle.

Titled Spider Spirit from my Mensajes Antiguos (Spanish = Old Messages) collection, 2025. Inspired by a gold Inca Spider (1432-1572). The Inca evolved out of the Cupisnique and Chavin cultures who worshipped spider qualities. Spiders, associated with rain, come out of hiding before it rains.

Heartbreaking… yes! But the Carlisle Indian School caused lots of these stories. I’ve tried to keep some of those stories alive with my art.

Wow, two wows. Thanks