Sorry for the long break between posts. Lydia and I have been in the process of buying a house and moving. We are getting settled in now and I have some time to work on art projects again. Lydia has been making some really cool sculptural lamps. I stole some of her materials and made a cat!
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I have been playing around with some wrapped wire forms. If any of these look like some of Lydia’s work, that’s because she taught me the technique. Her pieces remind me of flowers, seed pods, and other organic shapes. Mine are based on sea creatures, mostly jellyfish and squid. (sea creatures along with wings seem to keep popping up in my work, im not sure why). I have sold a couple of necklaces and people seem to really respond to these so I think I will continue making them. Some of them will be for sale in our online store whenever I get it working. Here is a sample:
I made this first one for Lydia. The inside is silver which has been cast in a mold carved from a Cuttle fish bone. The bell is wrapped silver wire.
Here are a couple of fish I made in Lydia’s ceramic class at the Da Center for the Arts. I havent really used ceramics before. Here I was playing around to see what the medium is like. The first is a city growing tumor-like out of the side of a dead fish. I used a high grit heavy body sculpting clay. The glazes are low fire.
I made these mobiles back in 04. They are made from basswood and painted with acrylics. At the time I was working as a Prop designer on My Life as a Teenage Robot. You can see how the art deco and 1920′s cartoon influences of that show spilled over in to my personal work.
