2012 Paintings
Moving Boundaries
Moving Boundaries
Ambition proves the boundaries
are not for containing,
they are for chasing, reaching
and chasing again.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Change
First Change
Turning corners in the mind
chasing time, losing time.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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Ninth Direction
Ninth Direction
The direction within
the needle of truth
the marker of action
the compass of soul
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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Valleys of Karma
Valleys of Karma
Separating man from God,
in the green valleys of destiny.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Day
First Day
The immortal witness,
the ancient day.
What makes it change
What keeps it same?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Exchange
First Exchange
Messages from trees,
on clouds bound for the edge.
On how to make parts whole,
on how to make all compete.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Cut
First Cut
The first mortality,
the flesh and blood,
the pain and joy of God.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Rain
First Rain
Before it flowed green in the forest,
before it flowed red in the veins,
before it was the blue of the ocean,
before it was the white of the rain.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
First Cause
First Cause
Manifest as both wrong and right,
because of it or despite the night?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Drop
First Drop
Where did it live before it lived here,
where did it bleed before it flowed here,
the first drop, the first blood of life.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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Counter Cause
Counter Cause
Changing with company,
living next door to evil.
The good less good than before,
the bad less bad than ever.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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Cycles of Water
Cycles of Water
A portable destiny, travellingfrom clouds, falling on leaves,
ticking as time in the living,
flowing as rain through veins.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Secret
First Secret
Keep out the sun and moon,
don’t let even the birds see.
How the cause turns to effect,
how the One begins to breathe.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
Finding Entropy
Finding Entropy
Making the effects
look for a cause once more,
once more begin the end again.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
Fire Lines
Fire Lines
Beyond the fire lines of desire,
are the lines of wisdom.
Just above the fate lines of life,
just before the fence lines of freedom.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
First Peace
First Peace
It was not this difficult
finding peace in the past.
It used to play under the trees,
it used to sleep under the stars.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 48" X 48" (Square Painting)
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First Black
First Black
Who decided the first crime,
the first lie, the first long rope?
Who decided the first wrong,
the first black, the first white?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
Blue Wings
Blue Wings
Trapped in the forest of mind,
wings that have been free before,
inciting thoughts of rebellion
so they can be free again.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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First Resort
First Resort
Resting places for causes,
to cool their heels
cut their losses.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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Soul Sinews
Soul Sinews
Even the soul must now be flesh,
the effect changing the cause,
the God within the man
becoming the God without.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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Heights
Heights
These heights can’t be scaled
flying on the wings of desire,
riding the waves of success,
living by the crests of glory.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
Forecasts
Forecasts
A poet’s notion of the end
as the beginning, an emotional
response of those left behind.
Who has seen them return?
What has come back the same?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
Constant Future
Constant Future
The future reclaims the past,
branches lost to storms,
leaves lost to seasons.
If the eyes could see,
all that is returned to us,
all those gone, all those to come.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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First White
First White
Where was virtue from?
Was it born in twilight of dilemma?
Did it exist before sin,
or was it created afterwards?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
Faiths
Faiths
Signposts for same place
different directions, different faiths.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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Presence
Presence
Leaving behind our lives
in the hands of a world
crowded with memory,
distracted with action.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 36" (Square Painting)
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First on Moon
First on Moon
Perhaps the wrong one was right,
it was the moon that changed things.
The black bird was once white.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 30" X 30" (Square Painting)
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Dawn
Dawn
Folded flags of fate,
beginning of choice,
beginning of chance.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 30" X 30" (Square Painting)
Parallel Pasts
Parallel Pasts
Choices running parallel to time,
arrows shot from different hands.
Some falling short, some landing far,
some not reaching at all.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Foliage of Hope
Foliage of Hope
Waiting to be the effect
of the turning face of time.
Giving in to the future
with the alibi of hope.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Greater Force
Greater Force
Subjects of God,
forces of nature.
Too tangible for worship?
Too evident for prayer?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Inhibitor
Inhibitor
The catalyst frozen in time,
waiting for chance to change.
Hidden in the folds of time,
the cause for the end of time.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Last Light
Last Light
The same and new sun,
acquiring new causes,
new forms, new faces,
with new names, in new places.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Ancient Watchers
Ancient Watchers
Through the secret door
at the centre of the soul,
times of past and future
exchange notes with present.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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First Light
First Light
Light slowing down for the day,
making way for mortal pursuits.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 48" (Horizontal Painting)
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Gunas (3 qualities)
Gunas (3 qualities)
To break the balance to cause the beginning,
to break the balance to cause the end,
only to make forms, give names?
only to break and form again?
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 24" (Vertical Painting)
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Niyati
Niyati
Niyati: A winding road,
an easy destiny
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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Svabhava
Svabhava
Svabhava: An inherent template,
the hidden nature.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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Samskara
Samskara
Samskara: An ancient memory,
a recent life.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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Kaal (Time)
Kaal (Time)
Kaala: Time, the constant conquest,
the constant defeat.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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Samgati
Samgati
Samgati: Finders keepers,
the unseen chance.
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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Lakshana
Lakshana
Lakshana: To conquer, to surpass
Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 36" X 18" (Vertical Painting)
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