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The Necessary Angel

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"The priest waved its hands in a gesture of permission. 'Discipline isn't what you think it is.'" (2021) 10" x 10" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"No rice! No rice! No. No. No." (2021) 10" x 10" Gouache and oil on wood
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"'Like JEsus in the dessert," said the message, 'and i was crying crying crying'" (2021) 10" x 10" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"They wanted to know if I had eaten in the past fourteen hours; I had." (2021) 10" x 10" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"One told the other: 'She is normal. She is normal. Nothing happens to her.'" (2021) gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"The priest rolled its eyes. 'Fear is a note, not a chord. Who's going to love you enough to make you brave?'" (2021) 8" x 10" gouache and oil on wood
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"Sad? Which story is sad? The one that I'm telling you, or the one that you're hearing?" (2021) 8" x 10" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"'You can keep running,' said the priest, 'but my eye is like the eye of the fly, reflecting 4,000 images of you.'" (2021) 8" x 10" gouache and oil on wood
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"We thought you were an angel, but you're just a glutton with wings." (2021) 8" x 12" gouache and oil on wood
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"You could fit three of me in them." (2021) gouache and oil on wood
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"I keep making you up and unmaking you, much like America." (2021) 8" x 12" gouache and oil on wood
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"Nothing here is done without thought." (2021) 8" x 10" gouache and oil on wood
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"Ranch House" (2021) 8" x 10" gouache and oil on wood
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"'I'll treat you as one person,' said the priest, 'and call you both, 'me.'" (2021)
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"Even so, there was a grandeur in it." (2021) gouache and oil on wood
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"Ignorant and happy: that was the best way to be in life." (2021) 8" x 10" gouache and oil on wood
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"Sense of an ending" (2021) gouache, oil, crayon, clay, glitter on wood
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"They would be 43 years old when it happened on earth." (2021) 12" x 12" gouache and oil on wood
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"'Don't overthink it,' said the priest. 'Trust the process.'" (2021) 12" x 12" gouache and oil on wood
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"How is a condemned person supposed to behave?" (2021) 12" x 12" gouache, oil stick and glitter on wood
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"It is my duty to point out the pattern, even if there is no pattern at all." (2021) 12" x 12" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"The cards help me see things in an open-minded way." (2021) 12" x 12" gouache and oil on wood
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"'Stop trying to love everyone,' said the priest. 'Stop trying to love yourself. Just marvel at the world.' (A phenomenon is a sign)." 18" x 24" (2019/2021) oil, gouache, chalk, and glitter on wood.
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"Swiss cheese, because of the holes." (2021) 16" x 20" gouache, oil and chalk on wood.
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"'That's a common fantasy among my clientele,' said the doctor with a conspiratorial smile. (The preconditions of a surprise)'" (2021) 16" x 20" gouache and oil on wood
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"She wasn't a poet. She was a poem." 8" x 8" gouache, oil, glitter on wood.
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"Pink Shrine" (2021) 16" x 12" gouache, oil and glitter on wood.
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"Options in Community Living" (2021) 8" x 8" oil, gouache and glitter on wood.
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"They had to fight it all the way (the way to where?)" (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, oil and glitter on wood.
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"There is a slight shamanistic edge to what we do here at the agency." (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, oil, chalk and magic marker on wood
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"'That Arthur Lee Band, Love.' 'What?' 'That Arthur Lee Band, Love.'" (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, oil and glitter on wood
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"I was as you are now. (Wherefore this repetition?)" (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, oil and glitter on wood.
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"If we swapped places, it would make no difference (A shadow of myself, made by myself)." (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, glitter and oil on wood.
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Shaman Sequence, 2: "What had changed were their beliefs (a spoon bends, or doesn't)." (2021) 8" x 8" gouache, oil and glitter on wood.
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"He stayed four nights and we watched a lot of movies." (2021) 8" x 8" oil on wood
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"The things my wife will buy (Romantic Wordsworth: 1)" (2020-21) 8" x 8" gouache and oil on wood
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"He was more of a coin man; no interest in jewelry at all (Romantic Wordsworth: 2)" (2020-21) 8" x 8" acrylic, oil and glitter on wood
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"A Day Passes" (2020-21) 12" x 12" oil, glitter, acrylic on wood
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"A Day Passes, 2: The past is a damp crease (Pothos)" (2020-21) 12" x 12" glitter, acrylic, oil on wood
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"A Day Passes, 3: A Peach in the Garden Where Only Lemons Grow" oil and acrylic on wood, 12" x 12"
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  • About
  • Painting
    • Moving Up in the World
    • Lianelliam Fiction
    • The Necessary Angel
    • Invisible Planets
    • Don't Sleep, There are Snakes
    • The Bayview Series
    • Pilgrim's Progress
    • History in Solution
    • Animal History
  • Constructions
  • Contact
  • Selected Stories