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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.

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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.

  • See Me, Not See Me
    See Me, Not See Me
    Oil on Wood, False Eye Spots on a birch tree. oil on wood panel.18"x 15".
  • Indian Maiden and the Cart Driver
    Indian Maiden and the Cart Driver
    oil paint on the back of a wooden drawer
  • Summer Gourd on a Wire
    Summer Gourd on a Wire
    oil on canvas. This oil sketch includes crows and a woodpecker flying near by. 18"x 24"
  • pine silhouettes and Haint
    pine silhouettes and Haint
  • Gourds and Ancestors
    Gourds and Ancestors
  • wooden sky
    wooden sky
    The sky grew bright and wooden with gnarly knot holes and the sudden eye. Oil on Wood, 20"x 20"
  • Swimming Deer under Strawberry Moon
    Swimming Deer under Strawberry Moon
    The first gift. Just after my father died, a stag swam across the path of my canoe.
  • Lion Head Moth
    Lion Head Moth
    oil on canvas 2013
  • Fall Gourd on a Wire
    Fall Gourd on a Wire
  • Death Head Hawk Moth the Painting
    Death Head Hawk Moth the Painting
    oil on canvas.
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    • 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.
    • Ancestor
      Ancestor
      This 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.
    • Stuffed Doll with Eye Portals
      Stuffed Doll with Eye Portals
      The guide on the doll's shoulder will lead you into which ever eye portal you wish to enter.
    • Bottle Tree for Haints
      Bottle Tree for Haints
      There 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.
    • spirit animal reflection
      spirit animal reflection
      Looking deep into the water you will find your true reflection.
    • Spirit underneath, ready to rise
      Spirit underneath, ready to rise
      Just before dawn, the spirits rise from the water and float around the fields until the dew falls again. This painting is oil on canvas.
    • Cloud Spirit
      Cloud Spirit
      Impish cloud spirit, waiting for the proper moment to spring. oil on canvas
    • Spirit rider
      Spirit rider
      Ghost hat, worn by a horse person, when attending a cloud stirring ceremony.
    • Stag on Pink
      Stag on Pink
      This oil on canvas is of a Stag in August.
    • Doll stuffed with Clouds
      Doll stuffed with Clouds
      This oil on canvas is a portrait of a stuffed doll that I stitched with needle and thread, against a cloud filled sky.
    • sky ceremonial headdress
      sky ceremonial headdress
      I 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.
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    • 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.
    • Antique Egg Beater with egg whites
      I 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.
    • Dreaming While Hibernating
      bottles half full of water, voices and dreamers, sleeping and breathing
    • Water and Crows and the Worker
      I recorded these sounds and rhythms and Michael manipulated and composed them.
    • Piano, screen door and dogs
      Michael 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.
    • Calling Down the Moon, two voices, a guitar and a banjo
      Calling voices fly to the moon and then tumble back to earth.
    • Space Station
      When the wave crashes over the field of clover, with open arms, I will meet you at the Space Station.
    • Whistler at Neanderthal Crossing
      Sounds are recorded on the back water of the Tallapoosa River and in Michael Willis's bedroom studio.
    • waves, banjo, organ, canoe
      Waves 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.
    • Tuesday's Horoscope
      I 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.
    • Lurch and Holler
      Lurch and Holler
      Birds 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.
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    • 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.

    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.
    • Their eyes were made of stone.
      Their eyes were made of stone.
    • Their fingers only pointed upward
      Their fingers only pointed upward
    • Starring Angel
      Starring Angel
    • Plastic Bouquet
      Plastic Bouquet
    • Creme Filled Check Out Lady
      Creme Filled Check Out Lady
    • Creme Horns
      Creme Horns
    • Big Bear
      Big Bear
    • Mama
      Mama
    • Piggly Wiggly
      Piggly Wiggly
    • taxidermy bear
      taxidermy bear
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    • Water Home

    Oil paintings on canvas
    • Holy Ghost
      Holy Ghost
      Sunrise on red banks of the Tallapoosa.
    • Gourd Armature
      Gourd Armature
      Looking like a denuded flag of war
    • Moon Rising
      Moon Rising
      From my canoe..
    • sunset in the water
      sunset in the water
    • Ghost Bell
      Ghost Bell
      Bell and Sky. The bell that my Daddy told me to ring when he died.
    • August Water
      August Water
    • August Moon
      August Moon
    • clouds in the water
      clouds in the water
    • Sunset into yellow
      Sunset into yellow
    • Calling down the Moon
      Calling down the Moon
      A painting of night on the water and the secret rituals that must take place on the shore.
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    • 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.
    • The crow's offering
      The crow's offering
      Oil on wood..36" x 32", 2010
    • Gift from the visitor
      Gift from the visitor
      Pre-human recieves a gift from the visitor, showing the future. Oil on Wood 25"x 42"
    • Ghost Hiding and Waiting 2012
      Ghost Hiding and Waiting 2012
      oil on wood
    • Needlepoint Story Head
      Needlepoint Story Head
      oil on canvas
    • Mother Mary and Cosmic Jesus
      Mother Mary and Cosmic Jesus
      oil on wood
    • Battle for the Devil's Heart in a Netherlandish Headdress
      Battle for the Devil's Heart in a Netherlandish Headdress
      oil on wood
    • Gnosis of Animals
      Gnosis of Animals
      oil on wood
    • Calling Down Voiding Time
      Calling Down Voiding Time
      Oil on wood
    • Travelers and Pupils in the 5th Dimension
      Travelers and Pupils in the 5th Dimension
      oil on wood
    • Looking
      Looking
      Oil sketch on wood. 2013
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