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This is beautiful. And quite adorable. I love the little white bears, and the huge trees. I'm sure you already know that you have an amazing talent for foliage. Keep it up!

Posted by: Kristin on July 7, 2005 11:02 PM
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The bears are so cute. The dialog you gave them portrays them with a certain sense of adorableness. But the path they are following looks like blood, and they have red strings attached to their necks, all seemingly pulled in the same direction. Odd, but I guess that is your style... :)

Posted by: Blue on July 8, 2005 11:13 AM
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I agree with Blue. The red looks like blood. Hope the polar bears aren't heading into trouble.

Posted by: Mom on July 8, 2005 11:54 AM
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This is utterly adorable! The little bears very cute. I think it looks more like they are going to be lifted off to somewhere by red strings. As always I love the way you did the trees.

Posted by: Mia on July 9, 2005 10:47 PM
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I think the story-telling element of your art is what has always appealed to me most about it. It makes it idiosyncratic, and moves it beyond the purely aesthetic. These porcelain bears are cute as people say, but also eerie with their lack of definitions and facial features, and those red strings (that almost literally run like a red line through your work - or don't you have that saying in English? I can't think of it right now) reminiscent of veins. There is always this negotiation of inside and outside, organic and fabric-ated in your work that compels me every single time...

Posted by: Gabriella on July 15, 2005 01:39 PM
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you've made the bear our sister and brother. it represents masculininity and femininity.
To me, as a Native American, the bear is thought of to be our brother. Yet you've named them 'porcelain bears' which deeply translates to mean vulva or womb. Mother bears. The longest journey also represents womanhood.
The bear, who is our brother, is saying he does not know where this road we are on is taking us. But if you noticed these bears are not completely following the road ahead of them, because if they did their cords would get wrapped around the tree and they would be caught.
maybe this is the long journey of child birth, the imbilical cord is attached to the bears. The earth shows that the ground they are on is fertile, the mother earth provides the trees and such a womb to grow.

i wish i could paint like this

Posted by: elijah on July 28, 2005 03:20 AM
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Your paintings are so beatiful. I haen't lived I saw your paintings. I wish That I could paint Like that.

Posted by: Anna on August 22, 2005 11:25 AM
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Willie said the same thing mom did about the red but I like it!!! I think I might order one from you soon.

Posted by: Lindsay on September 16, 2005 02:15 PM
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So cute and cuddly looking!

Posted by: Evildab-The Bad Live on October 12, 2005 04:50 PM
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