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enchanting... I practiced and practiced, trying to be entertaining. We had performed together for years but now, all she wanted to do was look at herself in the mirror. It was as though she was hypnotized by her own image. Even the cats seemed under her spell. 30 ¼” x 26 ¼” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1580490232181-OLL9568VADF0IAJ8267H/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - First He Eats Her Hair "The very dogs will eat up Jezebel." Was prophesized by God's own very word, came true as wicked Jezebel paints herself; adorns her hair, the harlot leans out to speak - "Did all go well?" she asks sarcastically. "Who is with me? Who?" says Jehu... He rode with fury, righteousness his goal he commanded, "Let her drop!" Be trampled by the horses and left, then eaten up by the dogs, says God's Word the palms of hands and souls of feet remained of her, this wicked queen. Bible Books of 1 Kings 8:16-18, 25-27, 2 Chronicles 22:2,3, 2:7 W11" X H 14" painting W 16 1/2" X H 19 1/2" painting with frame Acrylic 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1555620141588-U8C7GDEYC7OQNG0Z7IAL/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - To Be Like Amelia I’m dreaming, I’m floating. I should be happy, but all I can think about is the danger below. In 1928, Amelia Earhart wrote a letter to her father to be opened upon her death. She wrote: “Dearest Dad, Hooray for the last grand adventure! I wish I had won but it was worthwhile anyway. You know that.” I wish I was more like Amelia. Acrylic Size 8” X 10” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1600190240419-Q2TPD9X2QQIJMYELC8X1/Cats+Bewitched+Lick+the+Walls.png Victorian Exvotos - Cats Bewitched We sat as we always sat every night. But tonight the cats were spellbound. They licked the floor, the walls, the furniture. “Cats” Charles Baudelaire In reverie they emulate the noble mood, of giant sphinxes stretched in depths of solitude; who seem to slumber in a never-ending dream; within their fertile loins a sparkling magic lies; finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, vague star points, in the mystic iris of their eye. Acrylic 14” W X 11” H (unframed) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242072465-760PW3X9G0PP2MNE8GGF/dancingstiltwalkers1+EDITED.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Dancing Stilt Walkers To walk on stilts was magical. We were the “Moko Jumbies," telling stories with our movements. It was a way to dance with our great, greatgrandmothers. 13 ¼” x 17 ½” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1555620249978-EHFG4SFGT5N2F3RN394A/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Transitioning With Music I am in need of music that would flow over my fretful, feeling fingertips, Over my bitter-tainted, trembling lips, with melody, deep, clear, and liquid-slow. Oh, for the healing swaying, old and low, of some song sung to rest the tired dead, A song to fall like water on my head, and over quivering limbs, dream flushed to glow! “I Am In Need Of Music” by Elizabeth Bishop 1911-1919 Acrylic Size 9” X 11” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571625143-JQRBIMCUVWR3NAHHHAKG/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Monkeys with Crowns / Pigs with Hats 20” x 18” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571640161-EDH89XYO8L7J03LS9QI1/mouthgatemonkeyskeletons1.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Mouth Gate Monkey Skeletons I waited for my turn to move into the mouth gate. There were others already deep inside, but the monkeys were the most difficult to compete against. Sometimes they appeared as skeletons and sometimes as humans with tails “I broke the spell - nor deemed it’s power could fetter me another another hour. Ah, thoughtless! how could I forget It’s causes were around me yet? For wheresoe’er I looked the while, was Nature’s everlasting smile.” - William Cullen Bryant, I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long 22” x 30” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571856011-SIWDJKXFR4XTEWN365MU/dreamsofflying+copy1.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Dreams of Flying “I learned what every dreaming child needs to know. That no horizon is so far that you cannot get above or beyond it.” - Beryl Markam, West With the Night, 1942 24 ¾” x 24 ¾” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242501316-0HS9BWKZFISR0RRQKAHH/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Skeleton’s Tea Party "England a fortune telling host, As num’rous as the stars, could boast; Matrons, who toss the cup and see The grounds of fate, in grounds of tea;" - Charles Churchill, 1731 – 1769 16” x 20” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502239605118-RW0YII8MMNNUQ8M53KGV/%2522Theyshallgrownotold%2522%25221.jpg Victorian Exvotos - They Shall Not Grow Old How is it possible to pick one or even two items that meant so much to them. Yet we had to decide what reminded us most of those gone. There were bound to be disagreements brought on by our grief. “They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemm. At the going down of the sun and in the morning – We will remember them.” - Robert Laurence Binyon, 1914 25” x 32 ¾” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1623849833198-B8UTP1Z61BQREZKKO1HW/Ringmaster+of+Trickery.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Ring Master of Trickery "Damn everything but the circus!.....damn everything that is grim, dull, motionless, unrisking, inward turning, damn everything that won't get into the circle, that won't enjoy. That won't throw it's heart into the tension, surprise, fear and delight of the circus, the round world, the full existence..." e. e. Cummings 16" X 20" (unframed) 25 1/2" X 21 1/2" (framed) Acrylic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1501266498849-NYJYK9T7LA7OCN50MJSI/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - A Gift of Wind to Delight and Amuse 11" x 14" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571755902-Q05PEWIIG1FS2AXCBREO/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Spider Woman Using Her Web I used to travel a great deal when I was younger. But now I question: How did I find my way out of that jungle? Where were those mountains in India? Did I cross that desert in summer? As I get older, I hope those memories come back. But it makes no difference if all of those fantastic things I think I saw, never really existed. 25 ” x 38 ¾” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242388250-EHKP4ASCUVZ81CQGPBKC/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Struwwelpeter She read to us every day with the intent to make a difference in our lives. ”Struwelpeter”, by Heinrich Hoffman had a story about about a boy who sucked his thumb. "The great tall tailor always comes To little boys who suck their thumbs And ‘ere they dream what he’s about, He takes his great sharp scissors out. And cuts their thumbs clean off- And then, you know, they never grow again. Mamma scarcely turn’d her back, The thumb was in, Alack! Alack!" 16” x 20” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502758242679-81X9PT8NHMIBJD6QCB7U/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - A Song to Ease the Dying A Poem by Tecumseh “When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.” - Chief Tecumseh, 1768 - 1813 28 ½” x 21¼" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502115113338-DQIHLPPEYHVNX5P9FJJZ/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Cats in the Cage "My beautiful cat, come onto my heart full of love; Hold back the claws of your paw, And let me plunge into your adorable eyes Mixed with metal and agate.” - Geoffrey Wagner, Selected Poems of Charles Baudelaire (NY Grove Press, 1974) 13 ½" x 17 ½" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571660024-N2NK53L56SJFE6L32QLV/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Performers Spin and Dance After all, we were performers. We expected to entertain, to spin, to dance all night. But I didn’t expect this. 14 ¾” x 16 ¾” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1508345836152-NTDVN5FT9H99GBQGQJ0S/Unknown.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Hocus Pocus To make our trick pass without discovery, we knew that when the eye and ear of the beholder are both earnestly busied, the trick is not easily discovered. “Hocus pocus, tontus talontus, vade celeriter jubeo” – A dark composure of words to blinde the eyes of the beholder’s” - Conjurers 25 ½” x 38 ½" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/7fcfd782-b504-47bc-9cbf-834dff430f1c/The+Knife+Thrower%27s+Mark.jpg Victorian Exvotos - The Knife Thrower We had all heard of Hensch, the famous or infamous knife thrower. He had stepped boldly, or recklessly over the line never before crossed by knife throwers, and had managed to make a reputation out of a disreputable thing. He had wounded an assistant badly. It was here that he introduced the idea of the "artful wound" . The mark of blood that was the mark of the master. There were many young women especially, who long to be wounded by the master and bear his scar proudly. "The Knife Thrower and Other Stories" By Steven Millhauser 14" X 11" (unframed) Acrylic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571737929-QVKXSRV1UPBCKC9LMH31/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Promises Made to the Sick We prayed on it. I made promises. That’s what I felt I had to do, but I would have said anything. Now it was time for me to honor my pledge, while I wondered what would happen if I didn’t. Who would know? 22 ¾” x 20” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1580490490339-PACYOTHLCA6UYFGPQ3R2/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - To Sleep Inside A Bear We researched our costumes, made drawings, tried different materials. i knew about the Bear Clans, the Cat Cults, the search for animal spirits. Those spirits only exist in the animal's proper home. "The Bear" - In late winter, I sometimes glimpse bits of stream coming up from some fault in the old snow and close and see it is lung-colored and put down my nose and know the chilly, enduring odor of bear........ I hack a ravine in his thigh and eat and drink and tear him down his whole length and open him and climb in and close him up after me, against the wind, and sleep Galway Kinwell 1927-2014 W 12" X H 12" painting W 18 1/4" X H 18 1/4" painting with frame Acrylic 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1555619638564-VEA1FJFKN4GOX1UK0VD3/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - To Run Away From Wicked Deeds To wicked deeds I was inclined, and wicked fancies crossed my mind; And every man I chanced to see, I thought he knew some ill of me. No peace, no comfort could I find, no ease, within doors or without; And crazily, and wearily, I went my work about. Oft-times I thought to run away; for me it was a woeful day. William Wordsworth 1815 Acrylic Size 9” X 12” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242209051-WXVJUZHCZO0C1L60DXDN/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - The Magician I believed I could get what I wanted if I practiced and practiced. Levitation wasn’t enough anymore. I wanted to make something disappear. 40” x 36” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1600191081785-F1X9AH2NLZS38JR4EGJJ/Whispering+Birds+Arguing.png Victorian Exvotos - Whispering Birds Arguing When the wooden birds began to whisper it really didn’t bother us. We could concentrate on our work. But when they started to argue, it became difficult to keep our balance. Acrylic 14” H X 11” H (unframed) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502240987381-I6ADIEBM2KGQQDL8SF6H/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - About the Shoes It was never about the shoes. We both knew that. After all of these years we had finally gone too far. Even as I grabbed the heel of the red shoe, All I could think about was the size of her hands and how awkwardly she moved. Time slowed down. I felt like I was floating above us, watching our dance, our fight….a bystander. 35” x 25 ½” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502240575352-ATRV8P5RZ0NX16TZ18B2/jumpingcatsbirdwithear1.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Jumping Cats / Birds Singing in an Ear 16 ¼” x 18 ¼” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571703254-YD66KXEX29R123JH4RC1/perfumedwalls1.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Perfumed Walls I would press my body against the damp stone wall. It was more than the comfort of the cool darkness. The smell was intoxicating to me, like perfume. I could sink into it and disappear into it’s vapors. 16 ¾” x 15” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502115125699-10G3AOSPRE8CL1SYEERZ/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Sword Swallower’s Assistant I was his assistant and that was all. Henry Ringling North said, “the circus is a jealous wench... who kills the brightest stars in her crown and will allow no private life for those who serve her." 12 ½” x 14" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502241076925-BKX8Y58KBZ0OUNRMYNE2/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Bride of the Bees I felt like a Queen... and now the bees made me their bride. “A maiden in glory, upon her wedding day, must tell her bees the story, or else they’ll fly away – die away, dwindle down and leave you! But if you don’t deceive your bees, your bees will never leave you.” - Rudyard Kipling,The Bee – Boys Song, 1906 18” x 21” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242300555-RIG0NJE456N8XR40KGMU/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Stepping Off the Edge “When you come to the edge of all the light you’ve known, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown: Faith is knowing one of two things will happen, you’ll have something solid to stand on, or you’ll be taught to fly.” - Patrick Overton, The Leaning Tree 27” x 31” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502571808981-WWPZWZK0G6W7PNAOLNZJ/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Danza Macabra We helped each other pile the marigolds on our head as high as possible. We made exquisite shadows. “Some lovers of the flesh, perhaps will claim thou art a travesty. They do not know the nameless elegance of the human frame. Tall skeleton, my heart prefers thee so.” - Charles Baudelaire, translated by Louis Piagit Shanks Flowers of Evil, 1931 14” x 17” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1624546722234-AED8PZYGL8136B5DVATQ/jadoo5.jpg Victorian Exvotos - Jadoo Wallah's East Indian Rope Trick It was the Rope Trick, the twenty-third of the Bangali jugglers' legerdemain display, that was the most marvelous of all and would become the benchmark against which all feats of Indian magic would be measured. They produced a chain of fifty cubits in length, and in my presence, threw one end of it towards the sky, where it remained as if fastened to something in the air.. A dog was then brought forward, and being placed at the lower end of the chain immediately ran up and reaching the end immediately disappeared in the air. John Zubrzychi Jadoo Wallah's, Jugglers & Jinns 11" X 14" (unframed) 16 1/2" X 19 1/2" (framed) Acrylic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1555620388647-ZD11AG2QNJT9CD56H6YT/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Wolves Driven Crazy By Perfume How splendid the sunsets are on warm evenings! How deep space is! How potent is the heart! In bending over you, queen of adored women, I thought I breathed the perfume in your blood. How splendid the sunsets are on warm evenings! “The Balcony”, By Charles Baudelaire 1836 (Translated By William Aggelep 1954) Acrylic Size 10” X 12” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502242620510-0NLWBPWXIMQW8EXG0XTN/image-asset.jpeg Victorian Exvotos - Pushed into the Well "Little girls this seems to say, Never stop upon your way, Never trust a stranger friend; No one knows how it will end." - Perault’s Fairy Tales 12 ¼” x 14” https://www.vanouwerkerkinc.com/framed-paintings daily 0.75 2020-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500918040341-VS4ROW2VBH6W6G8CV3OI/Sorcerer%27s+Hat+Painting+copy.+smallerjpg Framed Paintings - Sorcerer’s Hat Painting Framed, 72" x 79", 1990. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502572266349-G6QUINILL7N28E53S5QU/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Girl with White Painted Face for Ritual “Before I began, I painted my face white. Then I secured the birds with bits of string and hair." Framed, 40 ½" x 50 ½”, 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502749688060-B11I0A9PHP8QNF8Z61R9/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Cactus Dogs Try their Wings Framed, 71" x 61", 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500921203669-5U17KT23MC8Z0ZKCI5LT/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Haunted by the Girls Who Came Before Framed, 69" x 44", 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502572040114-1ATFQ52VP3ZOVW1IDWF3/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Leopard Woman Leopard Girl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500920566922-FBU7WHEQ744HOR4E8PKR/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Chinese Fingernails SOLD, Framed, 80" x 43", 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502756916234-U74U20T15ZPG8R81R7U9/image-asset.png Framed Paintings - Totem Maker’s Helper Metal Frame, 50" x 50", 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500921469044-N3M01MLYD3302C1ZHZT7/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Birds Singing until Bees Came Out of their Mouth Framed, 40" x 30”, 2011. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500918692656-EMPUVDD4XZ9IV407ZZ6N/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Girl with the Black Mask in the Red Room Framed, 43 ½" x 57 ½", 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502572227112-BQ8WLBB61CB2STAR69LD/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Girl with Lizards in Her Hair Framed, 44 ½" x 44 ½”, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502665416266-IR97V8XKTNF2MZ47SZNL/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Dancing Skeletons Metal Frame, 65" x 60", 2009. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1580490774592-VRWPEIQOP2I12HZKIL11/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - We Swore An Oath to God and Country When we were young, we would dress up as characters from books. Our favorite was "A Man Who Would Be King" by Rudyard Kipling, 1888. We memorized and even sang the hymn as we marched. The Son of God goes forth to war, a kingly crown to gain; His blood red banner streams afar: Who follows his train? Who best can drink his cup of woe, triumphant over pain, Who patient bears his cross below, he follows in His train. Reginald Heber 1812 W 30" X H 40" painting W 34 1/2 " X H 44 1/4"painting with frame Acrylic 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1501259382015-BGKM41OXUOHIFX20DFUV/1500916599737.png Framed Paintings - Monkey Comb in Burning Hair SOLD, 36" x 36”, 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502756983793-I6XL1QRNS7TVH984XZXB/birds+flying+backwards+copy.jpg Framed Paintings - Birds Flying Backwards SOLD, Framed, 66" x 59", 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502756211309-8GTS8JJKJPHLMILBBQOH/hornsframed.jpg Framed Paintings - Girl with the Small Horns in the Red Room Girl With the Small Horns in the Red Room https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500920455077-OIJIX41U9UYR0HEE1XJ2/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Cats Falling Painting Framed, 36" x 55", 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1502572134187-F8O7IFKUP4Z7WQ461O3Z/Temple+Cursed+By+Tattoos.jpg Framed Paintings - Temple Cursed by Tattoos Temples Cursed By Tattoos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1500920936320-1R6N9LYNI67TUI8HSWG1/image-asset.jpeg Framed Paintings - Indian Hats Standing Dogs Framed, 72" x 60", 1995. https://www.vanouwerkerkinc.com/resume daily 0.75 2017-10-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5942b938a5790a9157b4c56b/1508356782987-FWX0IPYDMC91410QJSJE/Screen+Shot+2017-10-18+at+3.59.06+PM.png Resume Established 1994