Tehachapi's Artist Community - grungehobbit.com

An aasvogel plunges towards her rubescenting prey, not craving avulsion or mordant wreckage, but to carve her desires in bone. Descending from a blood tainted sky and the sanctuary of her abode, she soars to greet a much-desired force majeure.

Life and my ideas of her assimilate inside me at times without my knowledge. Innate defense mechanisms naturally conceal painful experiences via denial, lies and suppression, while other survival instincts foolishly embrace pleasures regardless of the consequences.  This is normal, however a fragile mind often requires an opaque retreat in which to shelter it from the glare of sentience.

All photos below taken by my buddy StoriLori

Wait!  I can't get on stage now, I haven't had a drink of my earl grey yet...  Yikes

Look real hard Holly, Do you see it?   It's a bird, no, it's a plane, no, it's the sound guy jumping up and down waving his hands and screaming.... "You have to turn the mic on first dummy. "

Voice imitation of Marlene Dietrich, and her girlfriend by Sparks

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I probed into the silenced and unjustifiable, that which is not permissible along side my consciousness.  A much needed communiqué with my fears, wishes, and immoral thirsts draw me in.  An instance of calm and dominance constrains my logical thoughts and well-constructed pretense, releasing my otherwise conscious perception of dishonorable behavior onto the stage of my intimate existence.

There is no mystery to why visual artists come to places such as Tehachapi to find inspiration. The magnificence of granite boulders and trees has endured the struggle of time, casting shadows along the sun-coated mountains creating natural muses.  Sounds and smells of wildlife and earth’s magnetic pull on melted snow is the perfect blend to animate such an atmosphere of subsistence and energy.

I am testing out a new bamboo pen... and filters. I did the woman by simply drawing her and adding some pointillism (got the idea from Helen McAllister). I used the swirl filter for the background, and the doubleup filter on the symbol for women.   Cool huh?