1972
2024-2026
Once Was
Pigments of my Imagination
Self Portrait as Commander of the Universe
Michael Through The Canvass
Step forward into a quiet future. It is thirty years from now, and the vibrant, breathing world we once took for granted has transitioned from the wild into the archives. This collection, "Once Was," serves as a final museum of the lost—a silent vigil where the ghost of a honey bee still flits and the silhouette of an elephant remains only on canvas. Each painting is a somber testament to a finality we once thought impossible: the last Alaskan glacier, the last Orca, the very last breath of a biosphere. We invite you to walk these halls not merely as a viewer, but as a witness, mourning the breathtaking beauty of a world that now exists only in the strokes of a brush.
The Last Polar Bear
Le Morte de Janet
A Tornado Rips a Kansas Prairie
Firenado in SoCal
The Last Almond Grove
The Last Beluga
The Last Orca
The Last Honeybee
The Last Alaskan Glacier
The Last Icelandic Glacier
The Last Rainbow Trout
Giant Sea Turtle Swimming In Plastic Trash
The Last Penguin
The Last Sea Lion
The Last Virgin Forest Burns
The Last Scottish Winter
The Last Scottish Spring
The Last Elephant
The Last Wooly Bull
The Last Hibiscus Leaf
Mia Famiglia
Mickey, 100
Michael, 75
Marissa, 51
Mia, 38
The Fantasies...
of Dying Leaves
Before the drift becomes dust, there is a final, feverish surge of imagination. "The Fantasies of Dying Leaves" invites you to look closer at the forest floor, where the fallen do more than merely decay—they dream. In these quiet, terminal moments, the leaves harbor nostalgic regrets and vibrant "what-ifs." Here, a hibiscus flower sheds its botanical identity to reinvent itself as a sexually charged opera coat, a creamy velvet life it never got to lead. Elsewhere, two solitary leaves find themselves locked in a final, graceful waltz, while in the grandest visions, a kaleidoscope of species gathers to imagine a world of harmonious diversity. These paintings capture the bittersweet beauty of the "almost was," celebrating the rich, secret lives of the things we usually walk right over.
A Perfect World Imagined
The Opera Coat
Lovers and Dancers
The Last Goodbye
In this section, the technical precision of the previous galleries gives way to something more visceral and raw. "Mia Famiglia" is an intimate departure into expressionism, where proportion is abandoned in favor of the weight of human experience. Through loose, urgent brushwork, these paintings map the jagged arc of the life cycle as it unfolds within a single lineage. We see the quiet gravity of a century’s end in Mickey’s frail, translucent form; the clinical vulnerability of Michael and Marissa navigating the trials of surgery and recovery; and the defiant, luminous spark of young Mia, whose exuberant joy and designer dress offer a vibrant counterpoint to the inevitable toll of time. This is family stripped of artifice—a raw, emotional record of the beauty, the frailty, and the relentless endurance of the ties that bind us.
