a photograph of the verso of the Silver Cup Studios sign in Long Island City, Queens, NY and two photos of the artist's childhood silver cup

Silver Cup

There is an outline of a dog in the forefront.  To shadow image in in a what appears to be a burred room with a couch to the right and a window in the background.  The colors are orange and red with dark shapes on the left side.

Maya in a dark world

A grainy digitally edited photograph of a large brown and blue building with a yellow-chartreuse grain elevator in front of the building on a river in downtown Red Wing with the Saint James Hotel to the left of the grain elevator under a dark blue and yellow sky with rough, unblended white clouds. The large brown and blue building has dark green trees and grass around it.

Landscape 10

A photo of rust that looks like a blue eye staring at the viewer with swirls of maroon, white, green, yellow, brown, and orange.

Eye of Oxidation

A photograph of a snow covered winding path down into a grove of snow covered pine trees. Off in the distance is a snow covered low mountain

Winter Beauty

A photograph of a woman squatting in a green field in Haryana, India and harvesting with her sickle.

Murti in the Field 

A photograph of an eagle sitting on a dead tree branch, framed by a huge storm cloud catching the last peach colored rays of the  late afternoon sun.

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Dark shadows of trees reflect on pond.  Deep colors of the cooling summer evening. Can you discern sky from water?

The image depicts a black and white photograph of a woman smoking a cigar on a couch wearing a Black Panther Berret.

Panther Power

Long exposure night picture of an intersection with stoplights and cars in motion.

A black and white photo of a silhouette like vision of a woman. Dressed in a black hat, pencil skirt and peplum blazer, the model has her hands placed at her hips, elbows out, front facing the camera. Her long blonde hair frames her face accompanied by an almost vacant, dream-like stare at the viewer.

Homage to Irving Penn

Entering the main Necropolis in Glasgow; a black and white photo of one of the best examples of a Victorian-era cemetery.  

Glasgow Necropolis

A collage of photographs taken in downtown Minneapolis. Pictures of the architecture border portraits of strangers on the street.

Make a Goofy Face

A photograph of my mother's collection of Chinese Quan Yin figurines dancing with my collection of action figurines.

Quan Yins go Dancing with the Stars 

In "Toast for Breakfast" we see a homage to the pop art style using photographs of toast taken over three breakfasts. Day one, peanut butter banana toast on a yellow plate. Day two, peanut butter and jelly toast on a blue plate. Day three, cinnamon sugar  toast on an orange plate. 

Toast for Breakfast

Photo of La Mexica, Mexican Indigenous Woman wearing Danza Atuendo with tribal paint adorned on her face standing Strong, Fierce, Resilient, Fearless because she is Brown and Proud.
Visual Artist/Model: Maricella Herrera 
Photographer: Pallavi Sharma


#EMPOWERFUL

15 teddy bear cutout cookies, lined up in 3 rows of 5. All have happy expressions, except for the second one in the last row. He looks worried, as he sees that the next three cookies have bites taken from them.

Teddy Bear Cookies

Over looking the beautiful Harbor of Portree, Isle of Skye, Scotland in Autumn. Blue sea water, lime green mountain dappled in sunlight. Sail boats along with the locals fishing boats dot the water. Rooftop chimneys highlight the scene.

Portree Harbor

A photograph of a nude person from a side profile revealing the torso below the breasts to the upper thigh, dark shadows along the back/backside, bright highlights along the front ribs and front thighs, body shape is slender, but positioning is curved accentuating the curves of the body.

Being

Freddie

Dahlia, Night Garden

Standing at the foot of a dock, fishing boats tied on either side, look out onto a northern Minnesota Lake through the early morning mist as the dawn breaks on the horizon

Northern Minnesota Break of Day

A picture of a diving reflection in the water 

Bonafide Boat Boys

A digital photograph of the words "white silence is violence" spray painted on a paved road, emphasized by a shadow overlaying the words.

White Silence is Violence

Resting Geese

This cow is not afraid to get in your face: her wet nose is close enough to sniff the camera, her eyes are curious, hoping for a handout. 

A Curious Cow

Capturing the internal struggles of a young woman with ADHD through a black and white motion blur photograph. 

ADHD 

A photo of a Heron on a branch with his reflection.

Poe’s Heron 

photo of man and dogs sleeping in wheelbarrow

Waiting for Stimulus Check

Black and white photo of a girl holding a black scarf wrapped around her head.

Make Me Look Sinister

A photo of a little girl in a garden, crouching beneath a metal arch and cloudy blue sky, gathering sticks. 

Silver Cup, 2010

Aesthetics Incorporated