sita and the golden deer | sinta gandrung

First post of the new year is an illustration from the Ramayana: where Sita, wife of Rama meets the golden deer in the forest. This deer is pure evil and is designed to lure her away from the safety of her cottage and the magic circle of protection around it, so that the demon king Ravana can abduct her while her husband is away looking for the exact same deer... anyway I think that's the story.

I grew up with a Balinese statue of this where the woman and the deer were carved from the same piece of wood and she was almost kissing it. I don't know what happened to this statue. I think we didn't ship it to America.

My dad is getting a print of this for his (Chinese?) New Year's present, but he totally has no idea.

wayang battle droid

Installation at the 2009 Character Animation Gallery show, co-created with Kristina Mickahail. Paper sculpture: bristol paper, wire and spray paint. Based on Balinese shadow puppets and random robot designs.

Blueprint & construction design of robot by me. Kristina did some of the decorations and painting.

the ladies of the court

These drawings are really old but I'm still proud of them. This is the first year I have not put them in my portfolio!

I like encrusting things with gold, it's fun.