SciFi & Spirituality Gallery

This illustration is a take-off on Grant Wood’s painting American Gothic. A female Buddha, holding a butter churner and wearing an apron with an “om” appliqued on it, stands slightly in front of a male figure wearing a Tibetan ritual deer mask and overalls. The image is rife with humor.

The monkey, carrot, and fish characters are meant to personify members of my former meditation class in a spiritual path called American Buddhism founded by Dr. Frederick Len

A Buddhess bathes her passel of axolotls. The body of her helper at left is made of a photo of the inside of the artist’s eye magnified.

Mourning the loss of crickets chirping at twilight in early summer only to find out that crickets do not come out till the end of the season.

For a time, I was in a spiritual path called A Course in Miracles. This vision suddenly appeared to me during one of our weekly group calls.

How many different depictions of media you can find in this image?

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Pluto’s characteristics are: transformational, purging, exorcising, releasing, and regenerative.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Mars’s characteristics are: adventurous, assertive, forthright, impatient, rash, and impulsive.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Mercury’s characteristics are: communicative, cerebral, capricious, nervous, anxious, and critical.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Neptune’s characteristics are: illusory, dreamy, creative, all things magical and enchanting.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Venus’s characteristics are: romantic, loving, gracious, charming, artistic, aesthetic, and relating to what we value.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Uranus’s characteristics are: innovative, unpredictable, imaginative, rebellious, and eccentric.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Earth’s characteristics are: mothering, nurturing, and sustaining.

From the Planets and Planettes Series. Jupiter’s characteristics are: expansive, optimistic, successful, generous, and overindulgent.

Beneath the detritus of a dead world, symbolized by a vacuum cleaner, a coffee pot, a garden gnome, an astronaut's glove, and a UFO, the new world, represented by an African American baby girl, is in the process of birthing. At the stroke of midnight of each New Year, the artist updates the year in the title of the piece. She will continue to do so until the world is finally reborn. O let it be soon.

This drawing was an exercise from the book Drawing Thought by Andrea Kantrowitz. The artist drew a squiggley line all over the paper, then proceeded to fill in whimsical faces, patterns, and forms in a joyful and spontaneous manner.