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The newest Colored Pencil work from Marty Kiser. The title pretty much says it all, but just in case you don’t quite get it, think politics — special interests — voices — laws. Those few voices have a large influence on the laws that affect the many of us. They can influence laws that affect your healthcare benefits, retirement benefits, unemployment benefits, or taxes. If those lobbyists represent big corporations, like, let’s see, health insurance companies, they might influence the making of a law that makes it possible for them to decline your healthcare claim. If they represent big oil companies, those big oil company lobbyists pressure political lawmakers to pass laws that give those big oil companies subsidies while you get to pay for them with your taxes. See how that works? 
The average person only has one regular voice with which to influence a politician (and who cares about one little voice?), while a lobbyist can back their one voice with money (that something that many politicians worship). The solution for those many of us with only one regular voice? Use it! If all of us call, write, vote, voice our opinions, that one voice backed by collections of cash will have far less influence than many, many voices raised in unison.
This piece was finished in time to be displayed at StarDog Gallery for the BuckTown Bash in Downtown Davenport, Iowa, on July 29, 2011. The original is available for sale (we think it is still available…).
More images coming. To inquire about this piece or a giclee print, Contact Marty.
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“Coffee 4-2″ or “Coffee for Two” or any other way you’d like to name it. It is coffee and conversation between two friends, discussing the world, literature, technology, politics, or possibilities for the future. This pseudo-surreal conceptual image is intriguing yet restful, stimulating yet dramatically balanced; the perfect companion to a breakfast nook, a study, a library, or your favorite room for conversation.
This image is of an original Colored Pencil drawing on colored Cansen paper.
You can purchase a giclee of this print here in our Shoppe or from our gallery on Yessy.com
The Maple Queen. She aligns with Herne in the life-cycle known as the seasons of the forest. She directs renewal, growth, withdrawal, and return; those processes that occur in every walk of life. Those processes that are life.
“Maple Queen” is one of Marty’s stoneware and wood sculptures. The stoneware is high-fired, hand formed, and hand painted. Colorful leaves of the Kisers’ maple tree inspired both the leaf shapes and the queen’s crown colors.
The solid maple base was recycled from a found, discarded futon frame Marty spotted while he and Dauna were helping one of her colleagues move out of an apartment. They all agreed that such beautiful wood had to become something artistic! Marty created the mask in 2009 and over the next several months he fashioned the body of the sculpture. Oak dowels and glue became the main means he used for fastening the base pieces together. Oak dowels also separate the two tiers of the base.
No metal was harmed in the making of this sculpture.
Height 29″; Base: 11.5″ square; Weight ~12 pounds
This sculpture is for sale in our Gallery Shoppe.
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