Homage to Marc Chagall. The Russian Goat. Red sandstone boulder with
multicolored lichen. North of Lake Mead. 11/15/2004

Gothic Spire. North of Lake Mead. Mojave Desert. Nevada. 2004

Indian Stone Dwelling. Sugar Loaf Mountain. Mohave. Near Nelson. Nevada
Porphyritic Granite.

Pharaoh Zoser’s Pyramid. Homage to Egypt. 2005. North of Lake Mead. Nevada. 2005

'Window Into Eternity." Dark Red Sandstone Wall in a Cave. Flash! Mohave
Desert, Nevada

"Pink Elephant is looking at you!" Red sandstone cave dweller! North of Lake Mead. Nevada. 2005

"Snoopy" Red sandstone wall in a cave. North of Lake Mead. Nevada.

"Psychedelic Mushroom and Butterflies." Gold-bearing brecciated ore near Techatchicup Mine, Nelson, Nevada.

"Petrified Snake" Gold-bearing Breccia with multicolored Lichen. Nelson,
Nevada. Mohave Desert. 2005

'She Turned a Beauty"
She was a Jewel. Gold-bearing breccia. Near Nelson, Nevada. 2005.

"Homage to Wassily Kandinsky." Colorful Lichen on Red Sandstone. After
rain. North of Lake Mead. Nevada
More on Kandinsky, credited as painting the first abstract ,here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky

The Ninth Wave and the fish. Homage to Ivan Aivasovsky. 'The Ninth Wave" 1850. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
See the inspiration at
http://www.theartwolf.com/paintings/aivazovsky-the-ninth-wave.htm

The Angry Devil in His Element. Homage to Edward Hirsch. Red/blue sandstone cave when wet after rain. A.V.

"Australian Boomerang Thrower' Homage to Australian Aborigines. Cave. Red Sandstone with black oxide crusts. Mojave Desert. Nevada

Homage to China! "Three Fishes" Liu Tsai, 1068-1085.

Homage to Arp, Jean (Hans) 1886-1966. "Enak's Tears" 1917. Red sandstone cave. Mojave desert. Nevada. 2005 (Note the image inside the 'window!)
See the original work ao art at:
http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/arp1.html

The desert lives! When just after rain this corner with wet and shiny Lichen and still dripping water looked like this. In a few minutes when the droplets dried in the Sun, which on a hot day can happen in a few minutes, colors fade, the dark red sandstone acquires a pinkish color closer to chicken flesh, and in some 10-30 minutes the picture fades to grayish and finally on the next day the lichen turn almost black. I am posting this 'colorful' variant it to show how indeed aleatoric concepts can appliy even to the 'static' looking rock wilderness.

The Magnificent Flower when caught just after rain. Homage to Georgia O Keeffe.

"Annunciation" Homage to Fra Angelico. A white angel descends from the right into the cave, where the Virgin hides stunned in the shade on the left. Only her breasts and neck are visible. Note the light rays penetrating the cave from the right.
See the original painting here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Fra_Angelico_043.jpg

Homage to George Washington and Marcel Duchamp. Compare to Duchamp's Genre
Allegory (George Washington), 1943, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris.
Sandstone boulder at sunset. Mojave Desert, North of Lake Mead.
See the inspiration here: http://www.artsjournal.com/man/2008/10/the_flag_michael_taylor_picks.html

"Angel with a Sleeping Dog" The Angel turned away from me and said: "You are Beyond my Help" Red sandstone. Mohave Desert. Nevada

2002 "The Photographer at Sunset."
Homage to Caspar
David Friedrich (1757-1827)

'The Praying Woman' from my series "Religion" Mojave desert. Nevada.
This was one of the most viewed photos when exhibited at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. It got the first offer from a lady who admired it and kept returning and stood in front of it. Note the ray of light over her head. It comes from a crack in the roof of the red sandstone cave. It
appears and lasts only some 15 minutes per day. Note also the black angular
chip of a basalt in her hand, that looks like the Bible!

Evolution in Nature

Homage to Tina Modotti: "Calla Lily" 1924
See the Modotti original at http://www.bnnonline.it/attpro/teca6/31b.htm

Homage to René Magritte: "The Discovery of Fire" 1934-35. Bat droppings; Guano. The Cave of the Shaman, WHERE THE INDIAN ARROWHEAD WAS FOUND UNDER MY FOOT BY MY DAUGHTER MARIA. Mohave desert. Nevada, 2005
See the original Magritte work here: http://www.artinvest2000.com/magritte_discovery-fire.htm

"Homage to Claude Monet" (Haystacks) Spirit Mountain Granite Haystacks.
SEE THE INSPIRATION AT http://www.intermonet.com/oeuvre/grainstack.htm

"The Dog" Accidental form of a root laying on the desert floor. Near Nelson. Nevada. 2004

"THE BOOK"

THIS IS FROM MY COLLECTION "ROADS" : ROADS I.
Homage to Andrew Wyeth. Or:'Mood, Andrew Wyeth.' REMINDS ME OF ANDREW WYETH'S FREQUENTLY SHOWN COUNTRY ROADS. THIS IS SOUTH OF CHALLIS,ID.

"Calavera" - Homage to Diego Rivera, and "Kikimora" (Russian hobgoblin) Note
under the scull of the Calavera the image of the Shaman is lurking. Red
sandstone cave. Mohave desert, Nevada.

Homage to Francis Bacon. (Study for portrait of Henrietta Morales) Red sandstone covered with black oxide crusts. In a cave. Mohave Desert.
See the inspiration here: http://www.all-art.org/art_20th_century/bacon5.html SCROLL DOWN TO "HENRIETTA MORALES LAUGHING"

"Homage to Naked Beauty Being Assaulted" Sandstone cave, after rain, still shiny, moist.

Homage to Wislava Szymborska:

TARSIER (Tarsjusz)

"...Why, what you already know of yourselves
Is enough for a sleepless night from star to star."

Shaman face. Photo taken 2005. Red Sandstone cave.

SURREALISM : Dream and Desire. Homage to DALI!

"Demon" Homage to Mikhail Vroubel. Red sandstone mountain. Mohave desert, Nevada
See the inspiration here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Vrubel_Demon_Ceramics.JPG

AMERICA "Homage to Jasper Johns" (Flags II, 1970)
3/15/2005 Idaho, near Arco.
See the inspiration here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/09/arts/0109-JOHN_index.html

Homage to Anselm Kiefer ("The Argonauts, 1990. Die Argonauten" and
especially: "Jason, 1999")

"Crown of Thorns" A hollow in a red sandstone cave... A bird's nest? Owls, rats or mice? I flipped it over!

Maenad (or frenzied woman). Cult of
Dionysus; chased by Silenus (see No.11) the Satyr. Homage to Greece! Red sandstone covered with dark bluish iron-manganese-titanium oxide crusts and multicolored lichen. Mohave desert, Nevada.
See the original inspiration here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maenad

"The Witch Solokha". Homage to Nikolai Gogol (Christmas Eve) Red sandstone cave. Mohave desert, Nevada. 2007
An excerpt of the Christmas Tale by Gogol from Wilkepedia states:

Christmas Eve (Russian: Ночь пе́ред Рождество́м, Noch pered Rozhdestvom), literally translated The Night Before Christmas, is the first story in the second volume of the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.

The story opens with a description of the winter scenery of Dikanka, Ukraine, a witch flying across the night sky and the devil stealing the moon and hiding it in his pocket, first playing with it in the sky, which no one in the village notices. Since it is the night before Christmas, the devil is free to roam around and torment people as he pleases, so he decides to find a way to get back at the village blacksmith, Vakula, because he paints hideous portraits of him in the church.

In the village lives a Cossack named Choub, whose daughter Oksana, an exceptionally beautiful village girl loved by all the young boys, is the object of the blacksmith Vakula’s affection. Choub goes out in the night with his friend Panas to the sexton’s home gathering, suddenly noticing that the moon is not in the sky. Meanwhile, Vakula is trying to win over Oksana, who mentions that his mother, Solokha, is a witch. Choub and his friend are suddenly engulfed in a snowstorm started by the devil and lose each other. While his friend finds his way to the tavern, Choub comes upon his home, but the blacksmith, who is visiting Oksana, answers him. Choub is confused about why the blacksmith would be in his own house, and concludes its not his house. The blacksmith then sends him away.

When Vakula goes back to Oksana, she tells him she won’t marry him unless he can get for her the slippers off the Tsaritsa’s feet. While their discussion is happening, Solokha is with the devil in her home, when someone knocks at the door. To hide the truth, she puts the devil in a coal sack, emptying out the contents. The mayor walks in and begins to speak with her but no sooner than he does there is another knock at the door. The mayor hides in another bag and the sexton comes into the home. While he is trying to play around with Solokha, there is another knock at the door and she hides him in another sack while Choub comes into the house. Another knock comes at the door and this time it is Vakula, and Choub goes into the sack that the sexton is already in, not knowing he is there, thinking it is something else. After his mother goes outside to speak with another visitor, the blacksmith takes the heavy bags to get them to the forge, wondering why he seems to have lost his strength temporarily, and concluding it had to do with Oksana not loving him. He comes upon Oksana, who again belittles him, and runs off saying goodbye to her, threatening to kill himself.

He decides the only way to win her is to indeed capture the slippers, so he goes to Puzaty Patsyuk, a local Zaporozhian Cossack who was believed to be in league with the devil. He goes to him and asks him to tell him the way to find the devil while Patsyuk eats magical varenyky that fly down into a basin of cream and then into his mouth, Vakula brushes one aside as it rubs cream on his closed lips. After asking Patsyuk about the devil, he remarks that he cannot give directions to the blacksmith to what is already on his back. Vakula doesn’t understand until he puts down the sacks and the devil hops onto his back. Vakula tricks the devil into thinking he will do as the devil asks, then grabs him by the tail and threatens to put the sign of the cross on him until it agrees to help him.

Fearing the cross, the devil takes him into the sky en route to St. Petersburg, leaving the sacks behind. A group of locals begin to take the bags and discover the men inside, while Vakula goes to find the Tsaritsa. He is amazed by the sites of the city, and has the devil (who shrinks into his pocket) transport him into the palace, where he meets up with a few Zaporozhian Cossacks who are meeting her (i.e., Catherine the Great). When she comes to greet them, the blacksmith appeals to her and glorifies her slippers, which she finds amusing and agrees to give to him.

In the meantime Oksana gets upset because the villagers have been passing around the rumor that Vakula has killed himself. She knows that Vakula, a good Christian, would not do this, and that night she falls deeply in love with him. She is delighted to see him return and agrees to marry him even before he shows her the slippers. They get married and the story ends with a bishop passing by their beautifully painted house. In the church the blacksmith has made another painting, showing the devil in hell, which villagers spit on and the women bring their frightened children up to say “Look what a kaka (poophead)” (transliterated as: Yaka kaka!)!

"Penetration" or "Ashes of a Love." Ash tray from Sicily - Silenus, son of Bacchus; cigar still incandescent!

"Green snake striking" Red sandstone, multicolored lichen, black iron, titanium, and manganese oxide crusts. Mohave desert, Nevada.

"A Magnificent Flower" Homage to Geargia O'Keeffe! A red sandstone cave bisected by a joint.
See O'Keeffe's "Black Iris" here: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgl/ho_69.278.1.htm

"Pointillism' - "Homage to Seurat and Signac".
"Homage to Seurat and Signac". Gold and silver bearing breccia near the Techatchicup Mine, Nelson, Nevada. Surface covered with multicolored lichen; note the white fine-grained quartz veinlets."
Paul Signac (November 11, 1863 – August 15, 1935) was a French neo-impressionist painter who, working with Georges Seurat, helped develop the pointillist style. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Signac

Homage to Duchamp! (Please touch, 1947) "Do not touch!" Ants nest. Gravel,

Homage to Duchamp! (Do touch!) Red sandstone. Mohave desert. Nevada.
See the original sculpture at http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/89754.html?mulR=16641

"Mother and Child" Red sandstone boulder. Mohave desert. Nevada 2005. (Next time I visited, somebody had thrown the small 'head' rocks away. It must have been altered adding the 'head' rocks before. The Baby is original weathered out part! Last time I found all the small rocks gone and it looked now like Klimt's famous "Goldfische" In the desert... people do much damage by playing and messing up nature!