will cease to exist

this piece, Mountain Stream Child Vodka Ugliness, will not exist for much longer

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Nemesis now

Here it is :D :D :D

Perfectimundo

not related at all to but somehow inspired by 'Bee Season'

mmmmm....

Crazy Goat Man

pen & ink

Sol Arbol

before & after MPA (massive Photoshop Alteration)

probably still like the original better...

Tree

fairly self-explanatory

pen & Photoshop

Carlos

I like to call this one Carlos, if for no other reason than that it resembles one such Carlos whom I knew a long time ago. A rather peculiar, though mostly harmless fellow...

pen & ink

Mural at 238 Garland Ave

If you show up at that address, this mural might still be there...

San Rafael 77

piece that holds much meaning for me, since it portrays that wonderful home in that wonderful time, Los Andes, 1998.

Carlos Gardel , sangria and guitars on the terra cotta roof, madness at every turn and in every direction...

Portrait

actually is a 'good likeness' ;)

Hypnagogia

meant to be one of a four part series (not yet completed, alas) devoted to ghost ships and other strange things encountered in that dreamy sleep state.

Musician For Hire

A humorous reworking of an earlier train-wreck, it also intersects with the occasionally humorous adventures I've experienced when being a musician-for-hire.

Atacama

coming out of a studio class, this piece helps signify the desert experience of the Atacama Desert.

update Jan 12, 2010

I have NO IDEA, absolutely no clue why this post, this particular post, with the nothingness it contains, draws the most attention to this blog. This per the Google Page Stats Feature. Not sure if it's bots or actual people. But just in case it is people,

1) nothing to see here. I've kept this blog as a sort of online portfolio/arts process portfolio since at least 2006, but I didn't really set about writing in earnest till late 2010 sometime. You might find later posts of interest

2) I'm producing a fine set of oil pieces, 93 paintings in 93 days. For more info visit here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aliciaraya/mountains-rivers-woods-sea-j-m-w-turner-and-me/posts

3) The above painting (as briefly noted) was a mix of found canvas and an old Drawing 2 class drawing. I called it Atacama, a place I got to see a corner of thanks to a random outing to the city of Copiapo, Chile, with family members 10 years before the creation of this work. More info (and an update of the work as later formulated) is to be found here: http://art.aliciaraya.com/2011/10/revisiting-old-works-atacama-then-and.html

4) And now, a little poem, in acknowledgment of your visit:
LA NOCHE

El dormir es como un puente
que va del hoy al mañana.
Por debajo, como un sueño,
pasa el agua, pasa el alma.

Sleeping is like a bridge

traveling from then to today

underneath, like a dream

water flows, soul travels

Juan Ramon Jimenez

p.d. if you ARE a bot, suppose you tell me how you end up here? I am seriously befuddled.

here's a good one

I like to call it Venusian Malady. That ought to be fairly self-explanatory...