HAFFTKA

The title is taken from the Walt Whitman poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry". That poem is engraved on a building by the Brooklyn Bridge which I pass often and I find it very inspiring.  
An encaustic painting on panel, 24"x19".

I Am With You #2/2

Light and darkness, life and death, illuminated by the four winds

The Four Illuminations #1/2

The Four Illuminations #2/2

A portrait commissioned by Andre Messina to celebrate a successful event in his life

Portrait of Andre Messina #1/2

Portrait of Andre Messina #2/2

Hafftka: Claire Silver and I shared our works to each other without censoring,  just going with the flow in a totally non competitive way building on each others creative instincts. We did it so rapidly and with no inhibitions that we were able to connect unconsciously to our creative cores. So what emerges is our artistic imagination combined. The technology facilitates fluency.  
Claire Silver: We mixed our art together in Midjourney, fed a live improv piano session into Suno, animated in Luma, combined in after effectsa whirlwind, like splatter painting, like freestyle jazz.