Deep Enough

doodle edition

My art, really, arose from my doodlings during class as a boy. I mean seriously, what else are you supposed to do during those lectures. And you have a pen in your hand..

Later I doodled at work. Same game, different decade.

So here are some doodles I made at work. They were all drawn with whatever pen I was using that day on whatever paper I had in front of me.

I might have more lying around. I'll look in the closets..

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black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

When your mind wanders, follow it.

black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

black sharpie on bond paper

Hollywood 2018

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Unwanted memories

watercolor and watercolorpencil

Calbayog City 2024

This painting is pretty brutal I know. It's coming from someplace.

The thing about watercolor is that when you apply the paint, magic happens.

Deep in our being we are spirits.

Our spirits follow magic beyond our control.

Cigarettes after sex - John Wayne

watercolor and watercolorpencil

Calbayog City 2024

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Pencil drawings

pencil drawings

Calbayog City, Philippines

2024

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"Space is where you let go, not where you hold on" - Alan Watts

Yesterday, Sean, my 8 yo son, asked me:

"Dad, what's more believable, a jellyfish or a unicorn?"

I love it when he asks me things like that.

Space time and jellyfish

Pen drawing

Chicago 2004

Don't Let Babylon Use You

FRED LOCKS & the CREATION STEPPERS

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

I've got five layers on this drawing. Im amazed the paper is holding up.

Thank you Arches paper & Prisma pencils.

Don't let Babylon use you

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Lather - Jefferson Airplane

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

I have this idea for a science fiction story.

In the story during an unborn child's nine months in the womb, the child's entire life is slowly played out for them like in a movie so that by the time they are born they know everything that is going happen to them in their life.

In the story then when the mother is about to give birth, the unborn child faces the opening cervix and looks out to their inevitable future with dread.

Being born then wipes away all memory of this.

But each person then leads their lives with the uneasy feeling that everything is a forgone conclusion.

Second thoughts

Black sharpie on paper

Hollywood 2018

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This is amazing

Cover of 'fable' by Gigi Perez.

Nature & Humanity

pencil on watercolor paper

Calbayog City 2024

In the Philippines, the real law of the land is the law of nature. With no safty net.

In the Philippines, everywhere women are suckling babies. The streets are filled with children laughing and dancing in play. But there are no old people.

Smiles and machetes.

I exist here as if in a dream. As if in a bubble. Looking out but never touching.

Calbayog City 2024

Cigarettes after sex

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Power of the Trinity

AKAE BEKA

watercolor, los angeles, 2017

Once upon a time you were floating in a warm sea of amniotic fluid, dreaming.

watercolor, los angeles, 2017

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