ABOUT GALENOGRAPHS
From the Apeiron Introduction:
“Why Galenographs? Why your own name?” you ask.
I’d be tempted to respond, “Why not? Even though art with a capital A has no distinct ownership, I am, after all, the final portal through which these particular expressions settled into being.
“But what exactly is a Galenograph? What does it mean?” you press further.
What they are and what they mean are vastly different, the latter more complicated to explain, if not impossible, especially for the one making the art, who perhaps is the last person—or should be—to explain what she or he has created; art is ephemerally subjective. Yet, we try.
A Galenograph is a visual idea taking shape from all that I am into and through a digital medium, potentially becoming a physical object as a limited-edition print that can be signed and framed. More broadly, it’s an artifact of imagination, of human expression, spooling out of our collective memory, evolving from our most ancient fears and hopes. Galen Garwood, 2023
The Galenographs, signed by the artist, are printed as Giclees, 16″ x 20″ archival paper, limited edition of 50
$150.00 each. (plus shipping)
The REDEMPTION SERIES These infinitely dark explorations symbolize the redeeming pathway toward home.
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R101-Burning Earth
R102-Sacred Vessel
R-103-Debris
R-104the Cave
R105-Isham’s Light
R106-Forest Spirit
R107-Lake of Regrets
R108-Last Swim
R109-Heart’s Galaxy
R110-Illumination of Isham Lane
R11-Journey Home
R112- the Blade
the APEIRON Series
From the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Anaximander, Apeiron is the beginning of all things, unlimited and boundless.
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Ap101-The Third Door
Ap102-M’s Flight
Ap103-Nothing Here But Now
Ap104-Stairs to the Books
Ap105-Nine Suns
Ap106-Twin Sorrows
Ap107-Two Books
Ap108-A Song for Peter
Ap109-the Enlightening Emily
Ap110-Last Memory
Ap111-Opeis Totem
Ap112-This Time
Ap113-Riding Our Bikes Into the Night
Ap114-Spectral of the Last Light
Ap115-Shifting Time
the DISMANTLEMENT Series: Another visual and emotional recording of inevitable change.
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D101-At the Edge
D102-Buddha’s First Eye
D103 Dispersion
D104-In the Language of Fish
D105-Indra’s Wedding
D106-Rising prayer
D107-In the River Shannon
D108-Tree of Light
D109-When Love Is Torn
the ENNEAD Series: In 2017, Ennead arrived. One day, while musing upon a square, I realized the shape is divided equally by nine. Number 9 inserted itself in my thoughts, and upon further investigation, I learned of its place on the numerological power totem. The word Ennead is a variation via Latin from Greek, referring to nine Egyptian deities controlling the universe, expressed within the Galenographs as unsolvable riddles.
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E101-Nine Clues Rising
E102- Nine Ways of Seeing a Poet
E103-Nine Abracadabras
E104-Nine Ways Amelia Knew Lavender
E105-Nine Times the Sea Believes Us
E106 -Nine Windows in the King’s Palace
E107- Nine Orbits of the Last Deed
E108-Nine Deaths Coming at Once
E109 LiPo’s Nine Songs
the OULOUS Series: From Oulous comes a reflection back into my earliest days of collage making, unexpected rhythms in the shifting juxtaposition of shape and color.
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O101-Study for Carabolis
O102-Study for Hanshan’s Diary
O103-This Way
O104-Symphony for William
O105-Ouulous
O106-Gray’s Forest
EXPAND YOUR ART COLLECTION.
The Galenographs are printed as Giclees in a limited edition on 16″ x 20″ archival paper,
signed by the artist, and shipped in a tube. Recommended frame size: 24″ x 28″.
$150.00 each (plus Shipping)
The DREAM SEA SERIES came to me in 2012, following MAENAM, Of Water, Of Light, photographs of the river in front of my house in the woods, including poems by eight American poets. Six months after its publication, still captivated by the water spirit, I built a small set in my outside studio, a little sea, as it were, creating a stage with symbolic props to further evoke what I’d hoped to be a sense of mystery. Dream Sea took about six weeks before the inevitable mental drought occurred; my little sea of ideas went dry. I took a break from artmaking and, a month later, decided to dismantle the structure. Taking it apart reignited new curiosities, more experimentation, and trusting imagination.
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S101-Akalixy Totem
S102-Crucifix
S103-Final Flight
S104-Into Swah
S105-Leave This
S106-Pearls of Shiva
S107-Raft
S108-Raft of Pearls
S109-Sleeping Stone, Breathing Star
S110-Stephen’s Dream
S111-The Fall of Intention
S112-When Dream is a Rock
The UNFOLDING DREAM Series imagines a dream state, that place where Hypnos rules. In his infinite darkness, he decides our fate.
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U101-Hyperion’s Sandles
U102-Perception of Salvation
U103-The Swim
U104-Saint Sabastian
U105-Some Sky
U106-The Dark Beach
U107-Day of My Birth
U108-The Magician
U109-Three Songs
U110-Unfolding Dream
the MANDALA Series: the circle, a familiar metaphor for any number of theological references to salvation, or Apocatastasis, a returning to a previous state, a restoration of goodness, a spinning of hope into belief.
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LM101-IMPRINT
LM102-Li Bo’s Cloudy River
LM103-Mandala Vichara
LM104-Electricution of Michelangelo
LM105-Sacred Cross
LM106-Dome Drop
LM107-Mandala for Ma-Udi
LM108-Memory’s Mask
The PHAINOMAI Series: a term from early Greek thought: I appear.
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PH101-Shiva’s Parallel Journey
PH102-Hat in the Rabbit
PH103-Seeding Memory _Time minus Time
PH104-The Secret
PH105-Cat Rock
PH106-Building of Consequence
PH107-Furnac
PH108-Golden Wasp
PH109-The Kindness of Light
PH110-Flight of the Last Polar Bear copy
Art binds us to one another, a glue of remembrance, a constant parameter expressing the height and width of our emotional spectrum.
It is our fingerprint of intent, reminding us that we have choices.