Gesso Cocteau
Scuplture Garden

Gesso In The Garden With "Ode To Love"

The Gesso Cocteau Sculpture Garden is a private garden occupied by many pepper trees, hummingbirds, butterflies, dragonflies and yellow bellied finches. Also, we have doves, road runners, an occasional passing-through feral feline, owls and mystics. There are vegetable gardens, flowers, mountains in the distance, full moons that grace the desert sky with magic. There are friends who visit, painters, poets and sculptors who visit, healers and scientists who visit and there are the faithful, the peaceful and the joyful who visit. Many of my collectors like to visit as well.

I am grateful to Carl for creating the gardens for me.

I am grateful to those who want to share the experience of the garden with me. Mostly I am grateful for a life that can be reflected in a way that is positive and joyful.

The sculpture garden is and always will be a work-in-progress.

A page from my journal:
Sculpting represents to me a medium with faith, when my hands are in clay it is a prayer of faith that not everything is going to break and spiral into space, that even if we dissolve, a part of us transcends the fear and sorrow and finds pleasure that is not numbing but orgiastic and awakening.

How do we as artists engage in our work while we are creating?

"September Twilight"

Do we bring our dreams from the night into the landscape of our art, or does our art invite our dreams into a landscape of primordial remembrances? Can we trust our intellect? Or will we chase some elusive romantic muse? Should we think too much about the underlying social and cultural ideas that influence our perceptions? Artistic exploration is becoming a worn out phrase, and yet we are like mad diggers of some archeo-evangelistic school of art.

We have to find our own inmost truth; this is what is so commonly referred to as our metaphoric vocabulary. Creating is about finding our own misery and rapture, throw away the theories and art school ideas, and embrace our behavior on an instinctual level. We are suspended in a solution of awareness a place where our individuality has not been eliminated. We must be opinionated, but also open-minded.

Artists need to have that creative interplay of exploration and recollection.

Mythopoetic representation of our own internal terrains is what translates our language into a common bond. Life is both comical and tragic and there is a close relationship between the two themes. As artist we need to ride the unbroken horse, to feel the tension and the freedom of the unabashed gallop, and if we are really lucky we will fall off more than we will stay on, because, ultimately it is the rude awakenings that teach us to respond with true instinct.

Gesso Cocteau With "Ti Amo"

Gesso Cocteau With "Flamenco Noveau"

"Angel Bench"

"September Twilight"

"Heaven and Earth"

"Heaven and Earth"