Nostalgic Southern California Map

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This map panel is 11.5 x 10 inches and depicts a bicycle resting behind a palm tree. The map used in the background and frame charts areas of the state my husband and I just explored. As a souvenir, the map, with its visual nostalgia, charts days and moments of memory. Look deep into the sky and you may read the words, "Wake Up".

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Baby pictures

Baby in nest- acrylic and paper collage on canvas 11.5 x 15.5 inches unframed and yours for $100.
Baby has stars in his eyes- SOLD

Woody on California Map

This is a common scene from Santa Cruz to Encinitas. Acrylic on map panel, 10 x 11.5 inches.

Child with suitcase

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Painted on map of California coast with words weaving into the paint. 13 x 8 inches
Though I don't often paint figures, like I have the last few days, the idea of a little girl with suitcase appealed to me. It is the child within who is searching for her place. She looks out to the horizon and finds a map with promises and questions. She stands alone with her stuffed animal and her bags. For the first ten years of my life, my parents moved us around the world. A special suitcase of my own kept my most prized treasures. I had a taste for caviar and loved sweet smelling soaps, and I was fortunate to receive them often as farewell gifts. My sisters know I was pretty prideful of my hoard of Lavender soaps. Then one transatlantic (?) flight my bag disappeared. It has never returned. So...Now I don't practice hoarding luxuries. Instead, I revel in consumption as soon as possible.

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Tourist Couple on San Francisco Map panel with poem

8 x 13
This is another map panel painting. Initially on a San Francisco Bay area map there are details of Joshua Tree, and the Sequoia National Forest, in the background. The Man's shirt collar has hints of the King's Beach area and the Womans blouse has maps further away- such as the lake Tahoe area and additionally features words from a poem by Maya Angelou:
When we come
we must confess
we are possible
we are miracule
the true wonders
of this world
That is when
and only when
We come to it.

The closeness of the couple combined with the distance symbolized by the maps really makes me ponder where we come from and what we have to offer each other.