For painting #79: "Apollo runs late after a night drunk on Love"

For painting #78: "Discarded Petals Stuck in the Grass"

For painting #63: "Gods in Dispute".

For painting #59: Some sort of conflict, struggle, it feels very old, very deep, and perhaps even unending.

For painting #57: "The Antithesis of Growth".

For painting #56: "Four Geishas in the Evening Delight". I painted this one for my mother.

For painting #54: "Three Geishas Running".

For painting #51: A ballroom/jazz club in the 1920s.

For painting #50: There is also a photo of this one midway, at which point a sudden title came to me: "When We Take Heaven: In Our Image". (The paint is still a bit wet in that midway photo.) The black "shadows" appeared to me a bloody and violent infestation and conquer of the traditional and conventional, and I found myself to bear an intimate connection with their purpose.

For painting #49: "To Be Alone".

For painting #48: "The A.L.P.H.A. Project". The inspiration for this painting was the double CD compilation A.L.P.H.A. put out by Geska Records. I also wrote my own review of this compilation here.

For painting #47: my felt aesthetic interpretation to Quentin Smith's Conclusion for his book Language & Time.

For painting #46: "Cold".

For painting #45: a self portrait of one kind.

For painting #40: a figure on a deathbed, dying, its spirit spilling out into the atmosphere surrounding, while the world spills itself into the body.

For painting #36: "Cthulu". Cthulu in his green slimy squid-like body with his long tentacles squeezing himself out of the middle of the mess before you. And there is a cow or goat-like thing to the very right screaming at him, as though it, too, is charging forth from the mess. But Cthulu already has that thing just within his grasp. But there is a figure in red to the very left, caged, but fighting off Cthulu; I'm not sure if the fight will hold out very long.

For painting #30: "The Philosopher: the Depth of Perception and the Aesthetic Experience, Willed and Held in an Extended Moment".

For painting #29: "A Joust". This always makes me think of Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Mallory, I don't have the slightest clue why.

For painting #28: an extraordinary and supernatural battle occurring in the sky or clouds. "Victory".

For painting #14: "Two Lovers Struggling Against the Forbiddeness of their Love".

For painting #9: for some reason I had in mind the phrase, "Suffer the little children" when I painted this. Whether or not I can say that I find that to be a suitable title, I have yet to decide.

For painting #1: the Skinny Puppy lyric, "All the people are asleep and dreaming..."

For now, that is all, but eventually, there will be more.

© Cheryl E. Fitzgerald August 2006