Drawings

Here, precious lotus, growing effortlessly from the muck to enlightenment. 
And the night blooming cereus that covers the hillside at Papakolea on moonlit August nights. 
Charcoal so well conveys the inky darkness of the night sea, where our friends, the tako, live. 
As for the Moko series:  from Maori tattoo to paisley to Bloomsbury to Japanese mon, to brocade to Aloha prints, to Islamic motifs and Celtic scroll work, electronic circuitry, biological systems, ...