La Seine, Paris. Photograph+ Digital Alteration. November 2011.
I am sorry
For my jumbled mess of thoughts
my contradictions
my ash offerings
I am sorry
for my sterile hips
for burning like a fallow candle
for not fathoming your fullness
(I salute it now).
Penelope undoes at night
her morning’s narrative.
It changes with each day:
two steps forward and one back
is not a step forward.
In fact, it is very much like
marching in place
while wearing a hair shirt.
I am sorry for my darkness
For wanting to hurt you with dandelions
for standing by a ripped promise
like a stubborn stone.
I write because
I have to.
If necessary, I can beg for a pen and paper
to hold again my favorite barbed wire.
(Sylvia Plath tell me again
how much fun it is
to write a poem).
…
I move my arms to caress
the petals of a giant sunflower
Inhale, lenghten
Exhale, melt.
In my raw silence,
my shard-sharp mind, my heart-awareness
forgetfulness is that one wine
I cannot purchase:
The door was ajar
yet I chose not to enter.
“Forgive my thoughts,
for they bloom at night
Nightflower’d orphans
banished by light”.
{new} Favorite drawings, paintings, collages and handwork on SketchBloom
Concept for jewelry piece ‘twomoons’
Queen Califia’s Garden, Totem/Sculpture. Ink, color pencils and markers. 2009
Pencil and Watercolor on canvas
Pilot Pen on Paper. November 2009
July 27, San Diego Museum Of Art. The Age of Enlightenment – Gabrielle Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breuteuil, Marquise du Chatelet by Yinka Shonibare- Ink on hand.book paper
Platonic Solid Exercise. Graphite on Paper. 2007
Coffee Carrier (delle). Graphite on paper. Kuwait. January 2010
Miniature Pomegranate. Watercolor on chocolate wrap. Kuwait. January 2010
Barcelona Chairs by Mies Van De Rohe, 1929 @ the CED Library in Berkeley
our very own coffee cart @ NewSchool: Cafe’ A la Carte
Ink on hand.book paper. Paris, 2011.
Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
Ink and watercolor on paper and tracing paper. A bit of digital manipulation. Feb. 09,2011.
Ink on Paper. September 2009
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
The Sun, the Moon, and on there being no abstracts in life. Pencil, ink, watercolor on 4″X5″ canvas.2009
Mare Mosso Act II. Graphite drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collage. March 18,2011
Mare Mosso Act III. Graphite and pen drawing by Gianni Aiello. Collag and pastel. March 19, 2011.
Watercolor and Graphite. November 12, 2009
Casa Del Fascio, contrast corrected thru Photoshop, Como, 2007
Ink on Paper. Calabria, Italia. September 29, 2011.
Baggalini Red.
Collage, Pilot Pen on Paper
Persimmon- very quick pastel rendering. November 12, 2009.
Watercolor on paper. June 3, 2010
Waiting for Godot | Static Head. Digital Collage. May 5th, 2010
Dr. Gregory House. Watercolor on Paper. June 3, 2010
Ink on Paper. December 2010.
Pilot pen on paper. January 2011
The Fortress of Lost Time. Graphite on paper and magazine cutouts. December 27, 2010. Miti and Gianni Aiello.
The funambulist. Ink drawing + digital collage. August 2011.
Twomoons Wax Proof-modeled after concept sketch
Earth Henna, Eucalyptus Oil. May 2, 2010.
Ink on tracing paper. Kuwait, January 2010. The scene at the bottom is what I saw-or decided to see- at The Avenues, the most popular malla in Kuwait City. There is nothing like seeing photography and drawings from a trip abroad to make you realize all reality is subjective, and we choose to see what we want to. We just don’t realize it in our own backyard.