VISUAL ART

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

- Judge Holden, from Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West, by Cormac McCarthy

Below is a selection of my visual art portfolio. My favorite media are watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and photography.

Colibrí

Gouache on paper
10” x 8”
2019

A lesson: Be kind to your watercolor paper.

A lesson: The Tufted Coquette Hummingbird is native to northern South America. It is only 2” in length!

That Muffled Cotton Silence After the Storm

Gouache, India Ink on Paper
4” x 8”
2019

You know the sound

Nature’s Van Art

Gouache, India Ink on Paper
4” x 8”
2018

A coast on a distant planet.

Bast 1

Gouache, White Ink on Paper
5” x 6”
2018

A cat from Reddit.

Bridge to Gamla Stan

Gouache, India Ink on Paper
8” x 4”
2018

A bridge connecting the commercial district with the medieval town center in Stockholm, Sweden.

Done in May 2018 while I was working there.

Mountain Landscape

Gouache on Paper
6” x 5”
2018

A recurring landscape in my mind.

Valley of the Huntress

Gouache, Ink on Paper
3” x 4”
2018

In the shadow of the hunted /

We are everything but lost /

Beckon me to follow you, dear /

Through gloom, decay, and frost /

In the valley of the huntress /

We will find each others' way.

- Shadow of the Hunted, by Huntress and the Holder of Hands

Not My Chair, Not My Problem

Gouache, India Ink on Paper
6” x 6”
2017

Seahorses. Fo-eva.

Untitled

India Ink on Paper
6” x 6”
2017

Interstellar overdrive.

YOU PASS BUTTER

Gouache on Paper
5” x 7”
2017

The cutest little existensial crisis.

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?

Acrylic on Board, Handmade Walnut frame
7” x 5”
2017

A close-up close-up.

Colt 1873

Gouache on Paper
7” x 5”
2017

A painting of a pistol.

Untitled Landscape

Gouache on paper
10” x 8”
2016

A lakeshore reflected at dusk.

DEATHBIRD

India Ink on Board
24” x 16”
2014

Inspired by titluar story from Harlan Ellison’s collection of short stories, Deathbird Stories. It concerns entropy and the eventual heat death of the universe.

I learned about bird anatomy for this project by deboning quite a few rotisserie chickens.

Dad Called This Creepy

Acrylic on board
12” x 16”
2015

A black and white lighting study.

Arena Yucateca

Digital Photgraph
2015

A beach under the temple in Tulum, Mexico.

Bruce I

Digital Photograph
2014

This cat is named Bruce.

Bruce II Digital Photograph
2015

This cat is also named Bruce.

Railyard I

Digital Photograph
2014

A bloom at dusk in New Mexico.

MARY SHABATURA

Lighting Designer | Artist

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