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Planktonic

When the hand speaks

The Polite Ewe

IMPULSE

So, Dear Reader …

Polar Bear, Redacted

It

How to Train a Budgie

When It’s Time to Draw a Line

Pieces of glass

Midweek on the Coast

The Summer I Became a Prophet

Caught in Time

And Then, The Beginning

How to Rid Stress

Hoc Est Corpus Meum

UNDER THE SURFACE

Play Loose with the Universe

Reverie

THE INVERTED BODY POLITICS

Morality seeking Solidarity

The Transformation

Soft

Dancing by Lion’s Rock

What has not passed you

The Shadows Walk Amongst Us

Yoga

The Cliffs of Moher

Bone Hand Skull Rock Branches Death

Adrift

Enough

swan song

Exertion

Divine Pollen

to make love potions and get nothing in return

The beginning of the journey

Spiritual Kite

Theft and Memory

I See

MIKO’S SECRET

Delineation

A Monumental Blur

Dancing light

Guess Who

Adrift

Free

Mrs

Amaranthine Juice

i ponder, a room of love

What Hope is There?

Inversion

Slack Water

the long sleep

Maybe Just

Doodyville 1960

Facing Fear

Mum

Memory

Lost

Thinning

Aerial Comes of Age

Negative Proof

3:48am

The Second

The golden hour

The Philosopher’s Dream of Reality

This is a Ghost Story

Legerdemain at age seventeen

I Feel Your Pain

Madhouse

aghast, (a)ghost.

Sky Woman At Night

Why

Surface Tension

Golem

Clarifying Shampoo

The slap

So Be It

Proof

Reaching Out From the Past

A Voice from the Front of the Screen

Intermezzo (1) Allegro

I call this planet home

Nisei

Bath Road, September ‘81

Immanuel

The Space of the revolving axis

I Still Get Hits

Food Chain

When the blood fades

trace

The shadow of your hand

Guardian Angel

the spinning fall

Free

the white goddess – a tripple quintain

Wet & Wild

Memory Fruit

The Veil

Mermaid Dreams

Crossing Swords

God is Up in the Sky and Everywhere Else Too

Happy Hour

Communicate …

An abstract abduction

Fractured Sail

Beyond degradation

The pearl earring

new shoes

Preliminary

Flipped

Heavenly Gaze

Unity

The Plastic Men

Geisha Tears

Silent Dancing

Opaque

How I’ll wait for you

Soul Whispers

War child

My Long-Armed Man

ODYSSEUS

Day of the Pea-Souper

Red

Afterlife

The Gap

Color is my fetish

When She Count Moments

Frost Bitten

the man who fell from the sky

Coming Home

THE OCEAN AND ITS WAVES

the space between waking and sleep

This One

HANDS

Astronomy

Playful images

Reminisce

Glovemaker’s Collection For Artists

Starstruck (after Stevie Smith)

“For hands that do dishes, to be as soft as your face”

Contortionist

Q&A

Exposure of a shadow

CORUSCATION II

Sketch

March 29, 2017

Photon

Artist

No Job

Unprotected

In Tribute to Douglas Fox, 1917

The Star Child’s Mother

Dancing With The Afterlife – The Invitation

Blotch

Stone

Writing

Perfect Fit

Invite

Gallery

THE LION AND THE LONG NOSED WITCH

THE LASTING IMPRINT

Sensitive Guy

Lunge

PINNACLE

Son I Never Had

Astral encounters

Lies

Zombie Apocalypse Neighbor

Which one

Long Time, No See

No Hands

I Could Be Anyone

For the love of gloves

I Do Like to Keep them Handy

A special acquisition

NO KID GLOVES

Give Me A Hand

Coloured Bliss

These Hands Stop for Nothing

(G)love Story

The Wrist-Snatcher’s Rant

Marigolds

Norm

All You Need

Silk and Leather

Contact

La galería d’arte

THE GLOVED ONE

Fives

Hollis

Amazo

Company of 1

Hotel D’Arte

Elephant Boy

Sphinx

Mirror Test

The nature of gloves and cats and you and me

UPENDED

Youth

The Tale of Naked Bodies

Maryam

Vincenzo’s Talent

The impurity of your touch

Being watched

Stuck

Good luck with the arseholes

All’s Well that Ends Well

Lake

Dropsonde

Prey

Illumination

Damaged Digits

Melodrama

Prodigal

And So It Ends

Homecoming

Galofo

Lost Peace

Sum Ting Light

The Replicator Bureau

Jack of All Trades

Parachute

Afloat

A Hawthorn Blossom Scents Air

Sky Death

From the Mouth of God

AH ! THOU WHITE

Not there

Swingship

Human, Post

Protector

ALL MY PAST GLOVES

Perspective

The Starting Point of a Human(e) Star.

Captivated

Run The Gauntlet

Inspired

I Am Light

TWO BROTHERS

CAESTOPHOBIA

Equations

hajar

the shredding

Glover

To Leave

In the moment before her leaving there was brightness

Herod made a sky

Lend a Hand

Postcard

Indecision

Big Fuss

Brighter than Cold

The Child With Mars In Her Eyes

Never Wore the Same Pair Twice

Phase

Flash Burn

Cliff Edge

Prepared

above and below

Bag

Genie’s Delight

My Gloves, my Friends

There Were No Children’s Gloves

The general synopsis [at 20.17]

The Soul Survives

The Horizon

The New Beginnings Party

How to Be a God-Being

Traced figure

Sirens

Leonid

Holding

THE BLAHS

Remarkable Rocks

The Colour of a Theft

A Quiet Game Of Bowls

Upstairs Gallery

Salad Days

Pieces

Sky Light, Sky Bright

Slipping Out For Air

Calenture

Knitting Souls

Bridal Dressmaker

It only takes a moment

Horse Head

You Can Stop Now. That’s Good Enough

Brown-horsed Girl

About the Boy

Guitar And Pen

Black Beauty

Cyanic Vanitas

Firework

THE ECSTASY

Sleight of Hand

Glory

Morning, Again

Ethereal

Final Dance

Performance

Notizie Portando

Truth

One Glove

Night Race

Blue is my colour

Irradiated Scripture

Manhandling

Four Horses

Dousing The Fire Within

The Podiatrist’s Lament

Did you ride horses?

Bosworth Field, 1485 – A Premonition

Sandstorm

Sphinx

Part-time Love

OCD

Arrhythmia

Misstep

Eyes Averted

Planner

Love

Last Chance

Image of a Sphinx

The Foam Hung White on His Quivering Lip

Cassandra’s Testimony After Apollo’s Kiss

The Melancholia of Hope

Eve Speaks

The Mare’s Eye

The Eye

slips into the sea, eventually

Lion Woman

nightmare

Cyclops

Uniqueness

Rainbow Dagger

Fate’s Early Arrival

Reflection of a Road

Light And Dark

Bandit*

Resignation/Defiance

The Other Side of Me

And That’s a Fact

On First Encountering a Stallion

Django

Lightfall

LUCKY MAY

Her Blue Period

Eye

The Other Half

Down at the stables

not your time

Ready. Set. Do Not Pass Go

Two Spirits

To Breathe Easy

Floating versus Falling

Black Madonna

Up

joe

overwhelm

Two into one

Wanderlust

AN APOCRYPHAL PSALM

Hands on stone

THE BEST GIFTS ARE FREE

Mourning Meditation

Happy Neues

Emotions

Boy

In The Blazing Light

In the present form

Hey Joe

Cubist kiss / A lover’s embrace

Sunshine

108

On Ardhnareshwar

Dual listening

THE UPPER LIMITS OF REALIZED ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY

Building A Home

Thoughts from Lucy, aged 9

Chimera

Morning rush II

Rented Apartment

Making Stars from Your Sleepy Eyes

Reflection in an Equine Eye

The Canal

Back 2 Back

Is this, This is

A Silken Splendor

The Fisherman

Humility

Fit

Tom-bowler

Be gloved in peacock blue

STAFF AND SPHINX

Herr Hagelstein’s Hand Shoes

Hegel’s Revenge

Inside Out

RUMINATION OF A SPHINX

Parachute

Horse Pantoum

The Decision Maker

Connection

Duty Calls

Study in Black

Gone

IntentINTERRUPTions

Photoshop Botticelli

How Are You Doin?

Towards Dusk

Metamorphosis

‘Vem kan segla förutan vind?’

Teeth and Toothbrush

here and gone

My Rock

I don’t like horses

Magpies

Hubba Bubba

The Light

The Secret That Grows With You

SUSPICIONS BORN IN A STABLE

At the department store

Exhale

Face Off

The Colors of My World

This Equine Eye

The king in the car park.

The Driveway

Merge

Decoupage for a Mermaid

Turning Point

‘Reflection’

A CAT’S TALE

Simplest Life

Duality

Finding Space

DRY DOBBIN

Cooler Tones

Each with a Purpose

It Happened at the Art Institute

Melting

The misery of Infinity

Ordinary Blues

Butterfly or moth

Harvey Palmist

The glove man

Mine Is The Hand

Frame

Lost Souls

Green Dragon

Red-Reflecting

broken dream

The Eye of a Horse

The Window To The Soul

Ghost

Everything is something to you

Gardeners Rose

First Sail

Spotless

Bad Presidents Lie

Smiling-free

Throwing down the gauntlet

Wall of Gloves

Disembodied Paradoxes

THE FINAL GAME

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

The Mate

Pairs and pairs

Tidal Surge – 13th January 2017

The Storytellers

Sealed With a Kiss

And Then At Times

The Wooden One

Gloves and the gaze

Shades of Blue

My World, the Hand Grenade

War Bride

Conversation with Kiran

THE PREVIEW

Invisible Ink

Cherry Lips Kiss Better

Written on Inauguration Day

Portrait

Duel

When I See Her Name

Horse Eye

Aphrodite and the Sleeping Horses

Brain Cave

Permanence

A Summer Evening to Remember

Nightlights

Good Ship Happiness

Good Vibrations

Whinny and Spit

Mirror of Amaterasu

Sail

eyeline

non sequitur

Surviving the Oil Slick of Sisterhood

Bethany

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