Dead Roads, 1993
       
     
Dead Roads (installation view)
       
     
Dead Roads, Out of Water
       
     
Out of Water (detail)
       
     
Dead Roads, Like the Poky Puppy
       
     
Dead Roads, Across the Sea of Grassland Plays
       
     
Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
       
     
Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
       
     
Dead Roads, Always Going Never Stopping
       
     
Always Going Never Stopping (detail)
       
     
Dead Roads, 1993
       
     
Dead Roads, 1993
Dead Roads (installation view)
       
     
Dead Roads (installation view)

Date: 1992

Dead Roads, Out of Water
       
     
Dead Roads, Out of Water

Date: 1992
Medium: acrylic on canvas, text panels
Dimensions: 5’ X 16’
Collection of the artist

Out of water
broken, bleeding,
sit and watch
the birds a’ feeding.

Life’s worth living
even though
around that bend
never to go.

Out of Water (detail)
       
     
Out of Water (detail)
Dead Roads, Like the Poky Puppy
       
     
Dead Roads, Like the Poky Puppy

Date: 1992
Medium: acrylic on canvas, text panels
Dimensions: 5’ X 16’
Collection of the artist

Like the poky puppy,
I follow dead roads.
The houses are adobe,
but seem to be of gold.

Brightness is mad.
Shadows are little.
Across quivering sand,
heat makes flesh sizzle.

Dead Roads, Across the Sea of Grassland Plays
       
     
Dead Roads, Across the Sea of Grassland Plays

Date: 1992
Medium: acrylic on canvas, title panels
Collection of the artist

Across the sea of grassland plays
the eagle’s ever distant gaze.
The cattle roam to water holes,
and I to where nobody knows.

I’ve finished working now I grin.
The at death’s door, I do look in.
Hulla luba. Hulla luba.
Oooky dooky poky tuba.

Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
       
     
Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
       
     
Across the Sea of Grassland Plays (detail)
Dead Roads, Always Going Never Stopping
       
     
Dead Roads, Always Going Never Stopping

Date: 1992
Medium: acrylic on canvas, title panels
Dimensions: 5’ X 16’
Collection of the artist

Always going,
never stopping.
if there’s nothing,
why risk knowing?

It is almost as if I do not exist.
The road goes on
without me.

Always Going Never Stopping (detail)
       
     
Always Going Never Stopping (detail)