Human Behavior

Besame Mucho

colored pencil & pen, calbayog city, 2025

Not gonna lie, I really like this one. It has a deeply blue, blue, and the red.. the red was an accident. I love accidents.

Lisa Ono - Besame Mucho

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the mind's eye

The river and the moon

colored pencil and pen, Los Angeles, 2018

If I could only show you my dreams. Listen to me, I dream in deep blue. Deep deep blue.

Visceral, almost violet blue.

And reds.

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being that

colored pencil, calbayog city, 2025

Being that my kids were busy building a pillow and blanket fortress this morning, I had unfettered access to the colored pencils.

No other reason.

I drew this in layers. This was the first layer.

black and white

Midnite - Music to honor I king

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ballpoint pen and alcohol

Calbayog City 2024

I tinkered with this drawing a lot. To the point where the paper is falling apart.

Audioslave - I am the Highway

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ROCKERS, the movie

If you've never watched it, watch it.

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A blue, so long ago

colored pencil and black sharpie

Calbayog City 2024

The Philippine Sea is a deep almost violet blue.

It came to me in a dream once.

And now I'm here.

But I'm not there.

And isn't that where I've always been?

This drawing is pretty much done, but it's not done.

In any case, I've moved on to the next piece.

Write that on my tombstone.

Samar, Philippines 2024

Akae Beka - The Earth is the Lord

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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Space Oddity

DAVID BOWIE

Live at the Ivor Novella Awards, London, 1970

David Bowie

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black sharpie on bond paper

San Francisco 2003

I spent Christmas 2003 with some friends in San Francisco. They lived in this big two-hundred-year-old house that sat on the prison grounds of San Quentin penitentiary. It's a long story actually but what I remember most was the bed. The guest room of the house had this large old four posted wooden bed frame with the softest thickest most wonderful mattress I have ever slept on in my entire life. I will never forget the moment when I laid down and sank into the loving folds of that luxurious mattress. I felt embraced by softness, and I fell asleep as if floating on a cloud.

When I awoke the next morning I was amazed at the time. I had slept through the entire night without waking up once. I felt wonderfully refreshed.

After breakfast I sat down with my sharpie and drew both of these drawings in a single sitting.

black sharpie on bond paper

San Francisco 2003

Meanwhile, far away

Checking out the piggery

Mano Chao - Minha Galera

My life has been a random path governed by a combination of occational planning, frequent accidents, and unexpected surprise parties.

My life has been a random path that has ultimately lead me to the deep provinces of the Philippines. Here I live, with my family, an unknown artist, gone native.

pen & colored pencil, calbayog, 2024

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