Majio Art

Working from the concept of Haiku Mind had a surprising impact on how this work was conceived. The ancient poetic form of Japanese haiku is traditionally a tool for acute observation...

After living and working in the various disciplines of Japanese culture, from long-bow archery to tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. No longer...

Living in Japan and working in the various disciplines in the cultural arts, from long-bow archery to the tea ceremony, Majio began to cultivate a different relationship to things. N...

These works reflect the animism of Japanese culture and Zen training. Living in temples and the countryside with craftsman communities in Japan for over a decade, Majio was deeply in...

Looking over Shoulder- cold wax, graphite, monoprints, oil stick over acrylic paint on textured panel. The five-year-old’s drawing of a dinosaur looking over his shoulder was added t...

The Woman found Playing with Arms, in a private moment as an infant, amazed by toes, she considers her arms in a new light. It is a new perception of everydayness. Small paintings ...

In Triptych Ritual Protection, graphite on Art Graf, impasto relief on Reeves BFK, the umbrella symbolizes protection. Do we not shield and are shielded, with our caring and invocati...

In Skateboard Series: Underfoot I, acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and collage, the skateboarder reads the traveling surface like braille, making instantaneous decisions through the bod...

Fourth Wall, acrylic, cold wax and oil stick, paper on canvas is from theater jargon. It indicates the breakthrough of the rehearsed script to include the audience. Once the fourth w...

Diptych Pathways: cold wax, printed tissue paper, graphite, handmade paper, oil sticks on panels, suggest the pathways that are fundamental to navigating this world, only recognized ...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

Ancient One, acrylic paint and monoprint on canvas is staged with fluttering gingko leaves, the oldest living tree species predating dinosaurs. The central image is hand to mouth---h...

Bird-Woman, acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, oil stick on canvas, embraces polarity as she manipulates puppet strings, an X-ray of the mouth. A toy top swirls in...

This woman in Playing with Surf is caught with her hands in the playful ocean surf. Perhaps she stands at the kitchen sink, a baby’s crib, or at the shore in contemplation, creating ...

Abstract II: Bow to the Frontier, acrylic paint, tissue, decorative paper, and impasto textures, on canvas, 2010. Bow to the Frontier acknowledges the border between thresholds and t...

Ancestors are lined up through the nstructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into an X-ray of a mouth printed on silk, a cave. opening. Diamonds arise fro...

Cross-Roads has a highly textured surface on canvas with rusted metal and handmade paper. It echoes the adage that one should not confuse the world with our perception of it, or the ...

These women are from my family but are also from many cultures and other times. At this moment, for a birthday, they are held together in calm by the prospect of another year, standi...

The Fan-Shape Series represents how an iconic image manifests with many connotations. Like oracular coins, these fan shapes look like sonograms foretelling the immediate future of a ...

Skyline, acrylic on canvas, is an abstract investigation of the world with acrylic paint and tissue paper leading to the known as well as the unknown. As in the demarcation of sky me...

In Instruments Waiting, acrylic paint, gold, and rust, handmade paper with tissue paper conjure a sense of something found in an ancient site, yet to be identified. These instruments...

Ancestors Series, cold wax, oil stick with monoprints and layers of marked tissue paper, explores through transparent overlapping images, the subtle awareness of unconscious influenc...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

Child-Shaman - transfer on acrylic, mulberry paper, graphite, and found object on panel surprises a six-year-old transforming into a dinosaur. In the Layers of Reality Series, the ...

Triptych Shrines-cold wax, burlap, paper collage, Art Graf, decorative paper, and graphite on tissue paper, on canvas, 2018. Shrines can be consciously set up, discovered or can asse...

Holding Hands. Cold wax, tissue paper, and oil stick over acrylic paint on panel express the rapture of two six-year-olds is a delight forever present beneath the layers of reality, ...

Becoming an animal is a shaman’s method of healing and gaining knowledge, and so for us. The animals we turn into are only recognized sometimes by those closest to us. Children can e...

Triptych Game of Capture-Collagraph prints on tissue paper with cold wax and oilpaint on canvas. This triptych, printed off the surface of textured shrine panels, depicts the feminin...

Diptych Moloka’i Shrine, monoprints with asemic calligraphy, graphite and tissue paper, 2021. Neighborhood shrines, both subtle and obvious mark general attitudes towards the earth a...

Diptych Ritual Tally, layers of marked tissue, graphite, cold wax, and Art Graf, on Arches, 2020. The ritual of keeping track of things is not always meticulous or accurate, and yet ...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indigeno...

Diptych Rainbow Landscape- cold wax, tissue paper, found object, and oil stick over acrylic paint on panel, 2023, through a rainbow as a lens into the landscape. The many layers of l...

Diptych Moloka’i Shell Dreams, Art Graf, rubber printing masks, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. As everything on the island is animate, these shells have their shell business with t...

Tango Boardgame Series: Alchemic Tango with acrylic paint, cold wax and rust paint and decorative paper on panel. Alchemy is an ancient proto-scientific and philosophical tradition o...

Tango Boardgame Series: Setting Up the Game with acrylic paint and decorative paper on canvas. As in the beginning of a boardgame there is a sizing up. Also in tango, a gentle initia...

Diptych Sky Trees at Dawn, Art Graf, pastel on Rives BFK. On the island of Moloka’i the sky is as alive as the sea and land, changing theatrically without notice. It is not out there...

Diptych San Miguel Cobblestone, acrylic paint, Art Graf, graphite rubbings, tissue paper on watercolor paper. High heels, boots with spurs, and straw sandals all in personal dialogue...

San Miguel de Allende has a colorful cross-section of life: a contemporary international art community, structures of colonialization, and traces of the pre-Aztec civilization. Indig...

Diptych San Miguel Comida, Art Graf, graphite, monoprints, tissue paper on watercolor paper, a two-tabled neighborhood eatery wraps tacos in checkered paper. San Miguel de Allende h...

Diptych Tango Paper Dolls with Dog Tags-acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper collage, found objects, and vintage paper doll. The first image in the diptych is the sensual emb...

Moloka’i Dancers, sumi ink, Art Graf, vintage discharged kimono on Rives BFK, 2021. Moloka’i natives, without inhibitions, breast flying, appendages flapping, arise in rhythm through...

Fox with Bees 2025 Acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas. The first layer of this reality is a sweet red-haired woman. In the next layer, she looks out from a two-...

Encaustic Copper Petroglyph Series with Paper Doll Outfits on Wood. 2010 The paper doll outfits are not clothes but images of states of mind from various sources, including images fr...

Crows, Red/black Japanese hanafuda gambling card, fertility and silver charms. The worn spot beneath the curved wire asks what’s missing? In this five-piece mixed-media series on wo...

Frog/goddess of transformation is flanked by a single bean believed to carry the souls of ancestors to connect with the past and ensure lineage. In this five-piece mixed-media series on wood...

Diptych Ritual Meeting, Art Graf graphite, mulberry paper, impasto texture on tissue paper on Rives BFK. A meeting in its complexity is not grounded in time or space but in the body,...

Thresholds, entries, and apertures are not always marked discreetly, but require a ritual pause before entry. The pause contains a gathering of wherewithal. It is an energetic practi...

Skateboarder as Jester, with cold wax, graphite, and collage, is the collective fool dancing at the edge of ascension and disaster. It is a collective archetype that acts it out for ...

Art still has a shamanic component that is often unrecognized, yet nevertheless functions through symbols. Symbols here are not a psychological interpretation, but rather work you as...

Skateboard Series with X-Ray I, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collage, includes a symbolic spell script from an ancient Taoist manuscript. This speaks to meeting risk and chance wit...

In Japan, the fox or kitsune, even in modern day, is a disorienting shape-shifter who causes one to lose their way. A comment in downtown Kyoto on an exquisitely dressed woman may in...

Garments can represent status, power, religious covenants, identity, and self-expression. Garment's nonverbal communication creates our perceptions of gender, age, ethnicity, profess...

The first layer of this painting was an ardent bare-breasted woman warrior reaching for a sword. The next layer that emerged, influenced by the Monk Series, was the outline of a trad...

Triptych Boat with Spirit Winds, graphite, monoprint with cold wax on 3 panels. A lone boat flanked by symbolic spirit winds comforts the highly superstitious sailors and fishermen, ...

Ancestors, a new series using cold wax, oil stick, and layers of marked tissue paper with monoprints, explores through transparent layers of overlapping images the subtle awareness a...

Tyme is in another arena than time, for you can borrow it, do it, nick it, mark it, lose it, kill it, take it and make it. It has distance and direction, breadth and texture as it be...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax, a transparent layering with oil paint over acryl...

Large Format Paintings in the Layers of Reality Series are composed of monoprints and various markings on tissue paper with cold wax to create transparent layers with oil paint over ...

Small child hovers suspended above a black bird taking flight. In balanced on one side a brass hook frog, on the other side a ritual object suggesting a strategy game of duality unit...

True Happiness, cold wax- tissue paper, found object, and oil stick over acrylic paint on canvas, 2025. A child stands as a shaman in his understanding of what creates true happiness...