About Liz
Baltimore City
I was born in a small town in Alabama and grew up working in the family business, The Heart of Dixie Motel. The Motel was set on a hill with miles of woods behind and HWY 280 in the front. The town lay in the valley below. The Tallapooosa River, just beyond the valley was dammed in 1920 to create electicity, which flooded many small towns and created a huge lake. This lake covers my ancestors homes and graves. Many of my images rise from here.
I graduated from the small but… more
I graduated from the small but… more
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Gourds, Moths and Silhouettes with Visitors
These oil on wood and canvas paintings are of organic forms of wings and wood grain. I also included in this series a story painting of the cart driver and the maiden. The cart driver would take the maiden to visit her lover ever night, from the shore to his hut. One night the cart driver arrived early to retrieve the maiden and saw her climb up from the shores out of the dark lake. Since he had seen her, he had to take her place in the water and become a maiden who lived in the lake and visited her lover every night in his hut. This painting was created on the bottom of an antique drawer. It is 15"x 15", oil on wood panel.
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See Me, Not See MeOil on Wood, False Eye Spots on a birch tree. oil on wood panel.18"x 15".
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Indian Maiden and the Cart Driveroil paint on the back of a wooden drawer
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Summer Gourd on a Wireoil on canvas. This oil sketch includes crows and a woodpecker flying near by. 18"x 24"
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pine silhouettes and Haint
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Gourds and Ancestors
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wooden skyThe sky grew bright and wooden with gnarly knot holes and the sudden eye. Oil on Wood, 20"x 20"
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Swimming Deer under Strawberry MoonThe first gift. Just after my father died, a stag swam across the path of my canoe.
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Lion Head Mothoil on canvas 2013
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Fall Gourd on a Wire
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Death Head Hawk Moth the Paintingoil on canvas.
Gnosis and Needle Work
These are paintings on wood which I am working to encourage the glow from within the images to be seen by human eyes.
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The crow's offeringOil on wood..36" x 32", 2010
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Gift from the visitorPre-human recieves a gift from the visitor, showing the future. Oil on Wood 25"x 42"
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Ghost Hiding and Waiting 2012oil on wood
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Needlepoint Story Headoil on canvas
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Mother Mary and Cosmic Jesusoil on wood
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Battle for the Devil's Heart in a Netherlandish Headdressoil on wood
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Gnosis of Animalsoil on wood
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Calling Down Voiding TimeOil on wood
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Travelers and Pupils in the 5th Dimensionoil on wood
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LookingOil sketch on wood. 2013
Sounds of Water, Birds and Tuesday's Horoscope
Sound collections from the Kitchen, Tallapoosa River and the Baltimore Backyard.
These collections are then composed and invited to take form and be sung.
These collections are then composed and invited to take form and be sung.
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Antique Egg Beater with egg whitesI was making things up while Michael had the tape rolling. I think it is better not to bray like a donkey, but I wasn't listening to my higher self. We have since re-assembled this piece and it no longer has the animal sounds in the beginning.
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Dreaming While Hibernatingbottles half full of water, voices and dreamers, sleeping and breathing
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Water and Crows and the WorkerI recorded these sounds and rhythms and Michael manipulated and composed them.
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Piano, screen door and dogsMichael Willis on the piano, screen door on the screen door, and the dogs in the distance made the dog sounds. When all is slowed we are closer to the octave of the note pulsating around the rim of a black hole.
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Calling Down the Moon, two voices, a guitar and a banjoCalling voices fly to the moon and then tumble back to earth.
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Space StationWhen the wave crashes over the field of clover, with open arms, I will meet you at the Space Station.
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Whistler at Neanderthal CrossingSounds are recorded on the back water of the Tallapoosa River and in Michael Willis's bedroom studio.
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waves, banjo, organ, canoeWaves beat upon my boat as the wind picked up and pushed me back into the hollow. Here was the good fight which I needed, neverminding that I would not win. I paddled over to the shore, got out of the boat, and then pulled the boat along.
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Tuesday's HoroscopeI was running in a figure eight upon the oriental rug in Michael Willis's bedroom while playing the kazoo, reciting my horoscope for the day, which was a Tuesday.
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Lurch and HollerBirds in thick air and trees upside down in the water, distant dogs echoing and eggs being whipped, water being patted with a wooden spoon, daily vibrations which we will leave when we are soon off to the space station.
Woven Dolls, pinecones and reflections
small oil paintings on canvas
I made cloth dolls with fur hair and button eyes and cloth lips all created using stuffing and whip stitches. These dolls have riders on their shoulders who are guides. This is the last stage of their creation, to make paintings of them so they might live in spaces between.
I made cloth dolls with fur hair and button eyes and cloth lips all created using stuffing and whip stitches. These dolls have riders on their shoulders who are guides. This is the last stage of their creation, to make paintings of them so they might live in spaces between.
Water Home
Oil paintings on canvas
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Holy GhostSunrise on red banks of the Tallapoosa.
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Gourd ArmatureLooking like a denuded flag of war
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Moon RisingFrom my canoe..
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sunset in the water
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Ghost BellBell and Sky. The bell that my Daddy told me to ring when he died.
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August Water
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August Moon
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clouds in the water
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Sunset into yellow
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Calling down the MoonA painting of night on the water and the secret rituals that must take place on the shore.
Shape Shifters on the Tallapoosa River
These are paintings on canvas using oil and are mostly involving the action which occurs when matter is transforming.
The air and the glow from within the beings of these paintings are engaged in a song, humming vibrations which I strain always to hear.
This work was created between the years of 2011 and 2015.
The air and the glow from within the beings of these paintings are engaged in a song, humming vibrations which I strain always to hear.
This work was created between the years of 2011 and 2015.
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AncestorThis oil on canvas is of the ancestors whose burial ground is under the lake. This lake was created by damming the Tallapoosa River. The resulting lake flooded many small towns and burial grounds.
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Stuffed Doll with Eye PortalsThe guide on the doll's shoulder will lead you into which ever eye portal you wish to enter.
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Bottle Tree for HaintsThere is a tradition in Alabama of hanging bottles in a tree just outside the door of a newly deceased person. The newly dead will try to enter the old home place but will be sucked into the bottles instead. Releaving the living inhabitants of the problem of haints.
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spirit animal reflectionLooking deep into the water you will find your true reflection.
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Spirit underneath, ready to riseJust before dawn, the spirits rise from the water and float around the fields until the dew falls again. This painting is oil on canvas.
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Cloud SpiritImpish cloud spirit, waiting for the proper moment to spring. oil on canvas
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Spirit riderGhost hat, worn by a horse person, when attending a cloud stirring ceremony.
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Stag on PinkThis oil on canvas is of a Stag in August.
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Doll stuffed with CloudsThis oil on canvas is a portrait of a stuffed doll that I stitched with needle and thread, against a cloud filled sky.
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sky ceremonial headdressI painted the sky years ago and waited for someone to come inhabit it. One morning in the still darkness, I began to stitch with paint this hood and then the ties for the deer head, not knowing from stitch to stitch what was about to appear.
Piggly Wiggly
These ink drawings were created for illustrating a song. The drawings will be put on a roll and cranked to roll past a viewing window as I sing their story. This group of drawings was created for the Crankie Festival at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD in 2016
Me and Mama went to town
To the Piggly Wiggly, to the Big Bear
grocery stores with animal names
grocery stores filled with poison creme
like creme horns and creme puffs
like the creme filled check out lady.
Me and Mama went to town
To the Piggly Wiggly, to the Big Bear
grocery stores with animal names
grocery stores filled with poison creme
like creme horns and creme puffs
like the creme filled check out lady.