SURREALISM

A Bridge Between Heaven and Earth by Graeme Jones copyright 2008
In the early 1970’s I concluded that the remarkable hatred and fear directed at Communism by the miserable, small-minded cretins that ran the New Zealand Government suggested that there just had to be something good [...]

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Evolving Line IX

Please double click picture to enlargeby Erik Kaye, copyright 2008watercolor

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Fallen Angel

Note: double click on pictures to see a larger image.by Bea Garth, copyright 2008scraffito-carved ceramic sculpture in progress, 2 views

This piece seems to reflect “A Fallen Angel”– i.e., how one reacts to losing a relationship as well as reviewing some of one’s memories of it.

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Ryukoji View, Katase

Note: double click picture to enlargeby Erik Kaye, copyright 2008watercolor“Its a famous nearby temple, Ryukoji, (ji means temple-Ryu means Dragon, Ko means mouth– Dragon Mouth Temple) where the Saint Nichiren was being executed when a bolt of lightning hit the axe-blade as it was being swung to his neck. The superstitious fools of [...]

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Eos Re-emerging

Note: double click to enlarge the pictureby Bea Garth,copyright 2008ceramic sculpture using carved engobe and colored terra sigillattas
Note: Eos refers to the Goddess of the Dawn. I created this piece years ago in the early nineties beginning on the Fourth of July. It refers to sensitive people and women in particular taking back their power.

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Some Days

by Bea Garth, copyright 2008
There are some days the body knowsthat it doesn’t matter what day it is.Whatever it is you are doing is just too much:you can be in the middle of the natural foods storeor shopping for a gift of Rumi’s poems for your first nephew’s weddingor buying lumber when suddenly you remember [...]

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Devil Girl

Note: double click picture to see the enlarged versionby Erik Kaye, copyright 2008watercolor80 cm wide x 110 cm high (roughly 31 3/4″ x 43 1/2″)

Note: Eric says this is a composite picture inspired by a rave celebrating the viewing of cherry blossoms at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. Eric says the whole country goes crazy for [...]

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A SHY LITTLE BOY

by Joan Dobbie, copyright 2008
standing beside anold red pickupscratching hisbelly buttonlooks up to seea (not really sowise) old womanride byon her mud yellow bicycleflashing a smile& waves to hershyly

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Really?

Note: please double click on picture to get a larger viewCarved and painted ceramic wall plaque using engobe and terra sigillatas as colorantsby Bea Garth, copyright 2008

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Animus

by Bea Garth, copyright 2008
Speak and I will run,come softly.‘Though it draws meI am afraid of the fire.Like a pumaI must think I am unseen,a few yards behind your reachin the darkness, amongst the trees.I must know that you are as Iwhen I hold you whollypaws turned into hands,fur into smooth skindespite any owlsthat may [...]

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