All who are hungry / oil on matzo
Painted from a photo of Palestinian families pressed against a gate, waiting for food. I saw this image online last April, in the middle of Pesach, when half a million Gazans were suffering from starvation. The first line of the seder: "Let all who are hungry join our table, let all who are hungry eat." Since, Israel has inflicted starvation on more than 2 million Gazans and killed >100,000 people in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
Seeking t'shuvah, I reckon with the history that created my life. I type with gratitude to my lineage who joined the world. I am held and nourished by so many people. Jews are not singular in diaspora; how many families of humanity have been displaced by persecution? Healing will never be achieved by segregating ourselves or claiming our right to survive as reason to destroy. We are made of the same light of life. Let all who are hungry eat.
"Drawn Into Light" is a community mural in progress in the Work Gallery of the Monterey Museum of Art, December 6 - December 21, 2024.
All are welcome to add their perspectives using chalk marker, completing an adventurous day painted by @aoksner . Thank you to all who have contributed!
Drawn Into Light, acrylic and mirror on plywood, 312 sq. ft.
Sturgeon Rider
acrylic paint on inkjet print (35 mm Kodak)
photographer/shoot director: @gcrmccarthy
painting: @aoksner
clothing designer: @selina_sanders
model: @then0t0ri0usvip
mua/hair: @naturallydeij
Currently on view as part of “Our Hour” group show @helmelstudios . Visible by appointment or during public walkthroughs:
Monday 12/12/22 7-9pm
Saturday 12/1722 7-9pm
7 years growing Love, you and me and us
acrylic and oil on canvas, on our bathroom, on trimming dead cells, on fur as a clock, on so much time as teammates
We've been calling this our cellular anniversary because they say all our cells regenerate every 7 years. Have all ~37 trillion of my cells transformed in our time together? I don't know, but I know we keep changing.
Uncertainty is the baseline. No distraction or pacification, we soothe ourselves with action. How?? I dont know, Trying, to learn, to will simultaneous tiny stuff, harness attention
Sick of skits and lies, romanticization of infantilization
Life is our time to bravely collide
Online as a way to tune in and beam out and I am wrong on the way to something better
oil, watercolor, acrylic palettes with inch x inch details today
making messes, finishing projects promised to people I love, playing with puddles of color in the grey afternoon
gaslight
oil on cardboard, on trusting a story over your own senses, on how we become what we consume, on a delicate equilibrium of life under pressure, on the danger of bad chemistry, on how we spend our time is how we spend our lives, on a hot stove that can cook a good meal or burn down the house
painted 2/14/2026 for @tensband new song "Gaslight" out today 4/14/2026 (listen wherever you stream)
right of the soil
watercolor and colored pencil and pen I placed over the past couple days on a printed picture of Wong Kim Ark taken in 1904; started while listening to the 4/1 U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, while listening to news reports on the displacement/massacre/starvation of people across the world by nation-states claiming my protection; finished while listening to my own breath and watching the sun rise
movement is a birthright, movement is an earth right
