TATTOOED PINUP CALENDAR GIRLS SINGLE-BREASTED

"SARAH"     16" x 20"   Acrylic on Canvas   Barbara Minas 

Available: Feminine Mystique Gallery  http://FemaleArtGallery.com

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URBAN WILDLIFE

 

"HORNED TOAD"  16" x 20"  Oil on Canvas  Barbara Minas  From nearly every location in the high Sonoran Desert one can see dust rise from builders, smog floating above highways and the rooftops of gated communities.  In spite of this, the flora and fauna survive, if percariously.  Thorny, spikey, exotic plants protect themselves and lizards, snakes, javelinas, bobcats, roadrunners, hawks, deer, coyotes and numerous other special creatures try to ignore our encroachment into their native terrain.

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GLOBAL WARMING: THE GREAT FLOOD

 

 

"UP A TREE"  21" x 22"  Oil on Canvas/Mixed Media  Barbara Minas 

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WAR VISIONS

 

 

"FORSAKEN"   16" x 20"   Oil on Canvas  Barbara Minas  

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BREAST CANCER: HEALING

 

 

   

"THE MIRACLE OF HEALING: TRAM FLAP RECONSTRUCTION 1993"  48" x 48"  Oil on Canvas  2007  This painting is in a private collection and is available for loan to a breast cancer center.

I had a mastectomy in 1993, followed by a tram flap reconstruction.  In 1994 I lost a good friend, Antje, who had been diagnosted at the same time I was.  I was one of the lucky ones.  This painting was commissioned and is available for loan to breast cancer centers.  There's lots of personal symbolism in the piece.  The lake is the limbo of unconsciousness one finds oneself in.  Above it is the ruin of a temple (the damaged self). The deer is the peace of nature; what will be will be.  The brilliant colors of sunflowers and geraniums are reminders of brightness and cheer.  The wolf/coyote has over-come recent danger: the rattlesnake.  The figure celebrates healing in the rare sunshine found in the Northwest.  The scorpion, however, lurks as an unknown future.

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DEC. 2007 HIKING WITH DAISY ON WINFIELD MOUNTAIN, SCOTTSDALE, AZ, 3 MONTHS AFTER HIP REPLACEMENT