A continuation of previous artistic musings...

Hello hello
I have uncovered the secret of clear, BIG images on here! Yay! So here is a second installation of artworks, some more recent than others. The first installation was posted on March 1st and those images have been enlarged as well, so if you have a sweet moment, jump back and look at them again, the size really makes a huge difference.
Today has been rain rain rain...yet, it is soothing and I know that those little drips will soon coax bright green buds into showing their faces, so all is well.
The season of hula hooping is coming back soon. I had some dear friends over the other night for laughs, tea, and dancing in my room. We went outside to play around with the hula hoops in the alley, and had alot of fun. It is such a meditative activity, and when you get better at doing some tricks, it feels incredibly smooth and powerful. I've heard of a boy who suffered from depression claiming that it helped to calm him down when he felt paniked. It does have a rocking-chair kind of effect to it. It is just summertime all the way, and so rythmic. Perfect for that big Detroit Techno Fest we all know and love which is really just around the corner! Yipee!

...On to the art...

A painting I did on a wooden pannel containing Mexican Loteria and a little hand-made Dia de los Muertos skeleton purchased in Mexican Town, Detroit.

Wood, paint, string, cardboard, glue

This is the inside cover of the afore-posted "Book of Leaves" (see March 1st post) which was done for an Imaginative Writing class.

magazine clippings, ink, paint, wood, metal, string

Done on a magical night with a friend who was trying his hand at painting for the first time. We got really lost in our own paintings and ended up working for a few solid hours. The large figure on the right is a spectre who has haunted my nightmares for a long time...yet, admittedly, looks much more sheepish and cute in this than in my dreams. I do think this was sort of cathartic though because he hasn't been around too much lately.

cardboard, paint

This one was done in highschool (maybe Junior year?). I was entering a self-propelled re-emergence into Mexican culture and folk-art. My family is Mexican, yet in highschool I really began to carve my own meaning from the culture and thus, develope my own identity as a Mexican American woman.
wood, art board, glue, paint, ink

I did this a few months ago as a Christmas gift for my mother in a feverish inspiration...I was so happy with it, that it was a little difficult to give away! But, it was meant to be hers, and she adores it. It hangs in her bedroom.

wood, gold ink, paint, vintage confetti, pencil, glass

The Sphinx. Note mideival symbol for oneness/infinity: the snake eating its own tail...encompassing a cracked egg, the symbol of rebirth, of breaking out of one's confines. The globe orbitting around the spinx's wound contains ancient runes: symbols used to divination, a connection with the divine in order to strenghten intuition and mirror seemingly outside events onto a self-conscious plane.
paper, acryllic paint, watercolor, prismacolor marker, ink



Angel with Egyptian wings and red poppies over her eye. Done in a time of rebirth, and awakening of the heart center which is, here covered in messy string, yet glowing in the middle.

tree cross-section, cardboard, string, paint, gold ink

(all photos taken by my very talented father: http://doucetphoto.com/index.htm )

I hope everyone is very well

madeleineeeeee