Majio Art

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancestors are lined up through instructional tissue sheets of a dress pattern. Above them, ravens fly into a skeletal mouth opening of a cave. Diamonds arise from the ancestors at at...

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 ...

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...

Figurative II Series, acrylic paint on canvas, brings forth the spirit world through animals, folklore, myth, and dream. The archetypal figures, aspects of ourselves, reveal layers o...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

In the Layers of Reality Series, the Shaman/child is depicted. In anthropologist Manvir Singh’s definition of shaman, there are three basic features: entering non-ordinary states, en...

In the Layers of Reality Series, the Shaman/child is depicted. In anthropologist Manvir Singh’s definition of shaman, there are three basic features: entering non-ordinary states, en...

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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Abstract II Absence of Impetus, Acrylic paint on canvas. Impetus denotes the transmission of power from mover to moved. Want of impetus is not necessarily a lack of impetus. L...

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...

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...

Skateboard Series with X-Ray II, cold wax, graphite, X-ray, and collaged images are choreographed with calligraphic marks. The obscured X-ray, a reminder of risk, of the gamble. In ...

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...

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 ...

Diptych Moloka’i Spirit Dances, Art Graf, monoprint, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. The island natives appear to be part of the earth. With a swinging gait, their body language is ...

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...

This mixed-media skateboard series, On the Pinnacle, combines acrylic, cold wax, graphite, and textured collage on paper. It suggests that anyone with enough guts, skill, and luck ca...

Triptych Indigo Rain-encaustic, paper, oil paint, fabric, and wire on panel. This unusual piece has antique indigo cloth with wire stapling on wood. The imagery plays with the deep c...

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...

Moloka’i Beach, Art Graf, impasto textures, tissue paper on Rives BFK, 2021. On this island, to prevent us from flying away, there is a sense that our great central sun fastens each ...

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...

The Tibetan dorje, a ritual object in Tibetan Buddhism, symbolizes indestructibility and irresistibility while a crow peeking out from behind the Japanes...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

The Seal painting with a gold sky invites us into the ‘seal world,’ not just below the surface but into the beyond. It is a world of vast diversity that ...

Tango Boardgame with Markers-acrylic paint, graphite, decorative paper, found objects and marked tissue paper on canvas. The board game of life, as with tango, metamorphically has ma...

Abstract II: Countries, acrylic paint, tissue paper, graphite on canvas, 2016. Countries’ boundaries do not recognize the Earth’s deep time. Borders come and go faster than rivers an...

This Diptych Taking Form with a leather-like finish of cold wax with layers of marked tissue paper on wood reflects the theory that all physical form takes place first in consciousne...

Diptych Tango Paper Doll with Silver Shell, acrylic paint, decorative and handmade paper, collage, and found objects, is in the context of paper dolls. There is a sense of an icon wi...

Medial Woman with Frog, on a rough wood plank, is covered with burlap and plaster for a leathery look, edged with beads. Encaustic wax layers the elements together. Medial Woman, as ...

Diptych Landscape Pogonip-cold wax, monoprints, mulberry paper on canvas, 2025. There are many overlapping histories in the local terrain of Pogonip, a word borrowed from the Shoshon...

Love Tyme, Cold wax, monoprints, oil stick on canvas, 2400. We have all experienced how tyme’s absorption in love has a different quality, whether falling in, worrying over a loved o...

JoyFool with acrylic paint, cold wax, monoprints on tissue paper, and oil stick, evolved from an inquiry into the difference between joy and happiness. This led to the insight that h...