"The Cross In Motion" 28.5" x 20" Pencil on Bristol Board. 6-1991
The swastika is a symbol as old as the Hindus and the Hopi. A cross universally means 'local consciousness' with the vertical line representing the conscious link between source and creation, heaven and earth. The horizontal line represents the plane in reference along that vertical line. In this case 'Earth'. The ancient Roman symbol for Earth was a cross with a circle around it. A physicist would say, "vertical line is time, horizontal line is space, and the circle around it is events". The cross in short, means 'matter' or bound energy. If you add wings to the cross you get a 'cross in motion' representing matter in motion. If turning to the right, becoming. If turning to the left, declining. Ironically the Nazi's chose to use the one that turns to the left because it looked like two S's overlapped. That is the symbol for matter in decline. Matter in motion is change, the physical plane's only constant. Another symbol for this is the spiral moving. The pattern is recognizable in Nature. 

“Earth After the Warming”
16” X 24” Charcoal on Bristol, 2015 
Nature will always adapt. 'Life' is the constant, not its forms. Life is the light in the magic lantern, Her forms the turning screen. 

"A Fireman's Daughter" 24" x 32" Oil on Birch Panel. 2015
​Ecstatic Lisa 

"Time and Timelessness" 4 feet x 6 feet. (any king's foot) Pastel on Bristol Board. 6-1990
Representing the 'horror and the wonder' that the physical plane affords. Here, there isn't one without the other. Quite a bit of selective attention afoot. 

"Lisa Metamorphose" 6"x 9" Pencil on Bristol Board. 2015 
A Surrealistic vignette of Lisa Ward turning inside out, practicing vulnerability, heart exposed. 

“The History of Painting Genres” 8’ X 3’ Oil on Birch. 2016
Da' Vinci's "Last Supper" is the Neo-Classical vehicle to display the changes in western painting in the last 170 years. Before the camera. it was the job of the painter to capture time. place and person, and was for thousands of years. But with the advent of the camera, set off a chain reaction to find the value of representational rendering, each within itself a reflection of time, place and person. From left to right: Neo-Classical, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Animism, Expressionism, Abstraction, Cubism, DADA, Surrealism, Futurism, Constructivism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop. 

“Real Men Paint with Cats” 5’ X 4’ Oil on Birch Panel. 2016
My take on post-modern art. Largely gimmick driven, the work explores the fear and tension, danger and risk a real man must face when using a live house-cat as a paint brush.*

​*No cats were harmed in this production. Artist received 27 stitches and a sense of rugged male identity. 

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"Mona on Fire" 24"x 36" Oil on Canvas 2-2014 -Not finished