Sometimes we shorten it to BML. But really there is nothing like exclaiming to your partner, “Beautiful Male Lover, let’s …make lunch” or whatever. I have found this term of endearment to be quite dear indeed… and so for a year and half I have been BML as well as having a BML. …anyway try…
Harumi
That’s ALL I can say. HARUMI. “Eastern-tinged pop…” If you liked the Beatles or the Holly’s only you woke up in Japan. double click THIS.
Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness
Mail Art Call – protect desert wilderness with awareness Dear Mail Artists and regular people, I invite your participation in a mail art call from desertWonderland. Just send a postcard depicting wildlife to desertWonderland and by so doing join forces with positive energies to express the wish to keep wild areas wild for wildlife to…
Fire Goddess
The flames that leapt forth from this fire created a beautiful fire goddess.
Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree
After spending a wonderfully productive evening in Yucca Valley at The Pottery creating buddhas and snakes from clay with my friend Maya, by sheer chance we went into the Beatnik Cafe in Joshua Tree to find that they were showing films. FRANK ZAPPA, in a film called Baby Snakes. What a treat. Alot of claymation…
Mosaic Workshop
Yes friends, it is time to sign up again for another incredibly fun weekend at my studio in Wonder Valley for a Mosaic Workshop. You can bring your own collection of special broken pottery and also use the amazing collection of broken bits in the “boneyard”. I will supply all the tools, nippers, grout and…
Concrete Bas Relief with Angel and Birds and Snakes
The new concrete work is currently being exhibited at The Pottery in Yucca Valley and at the gallery at Fi-Lox-See out in Wonder Valley. These were all created on Mesa School Lane in Santa Barbara. The materials were all schlepped from the desert to the sea and back again.
Concrete Bas Relief with Buddha and Roadrunner
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the…
Gopher Snake
This is a dead gopher snake found on Hwy 62 in Wonder Valley, CA. It was already in this shape. Took it home in the back of the truck and layed it on the tiled table for it’s farewell photoshoot. Printed 30×30 canvas prints also a run of postcards, and some 12×12 matte prints.
Scorpion
Desert wildlife served up on a tile. Scorpions don’t hold much of a threat. They just look a bit intimidating. This photo was taken in 2003 in Wonder Valley. I did a run of postcards of this image as well as 12×12 archival prints. All images are available by contacting magentaRaven.
Vera in Wonder Valley
Who says nothin happens in Wonder Valley? Being in the middle of nowhere you get a lot of surprises. Vera came down a few years ago from San Francisco with his partner Michael Johnstone and we played campfire together. Marshmellows anyone?
Flea Market Waterlooplein
At the flea market in Amsterdam, my beautiful male lover and I saw the most amazing things. Thank you, Doug for taking me all the way across the world on a whirlwind adventure.
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