Things I Make: 2011

Sunday, December 4, 2011

Stuff I am working on

These are a couple of peices that are currently in the works... for this one I need to get some maple, or maybe white oak or poplar for the the middle peices of wood ... instead of 2x4s

I havent figured the wood for the middle of this one and I might just make them single peices

I need to cast the wax bit in the middle in glass, maybe translucent red or orange or maybe clear, and do a wee bit more chaseing and patina the bronze... I might have the title worked out for this one, bronze talisman I and Ill probally bind the whole thing together with rawhid

Hopefully I have all of them done in the next couple weeks, and get them photographed for real.

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Mark is more geniuser than I am

New photos as promised... shot by my photographer Mark Johnston. He is awesome. Hopefully getting some things cold worked and or or cast in bronze or aluminum this up coming week. You can vote for some of my images for this contest for bombay sapphire... IE my favorite gin on facebook http://www.facebook.com/bombaysapphire look for my stuff or look at other peoples under the Artisan series, mine is posted in NH. I don't actually know or think the voting counts for anything but who knows and people like to vote on/like stuff on the facebook.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Work's In progress ... 2 boats or maybe submarines or ...

Drive way makes a better back drop than I would of thought

Hopefully I will be able to get my photographer who is much more talented than I am to shoot these with in a week or two. Went Climbing at rumney with Nick yesterday, Sent out two job apps today and probably will do some wood or wax working later.

Monday, August 22, 2011

Artist Statement

Joy should be intrinsic to life and life should be more than enough. A gift that is bigger and brighter than we deserve but unfortunately for most of us it is not. It seems that the average human being is content to live quietly and fade away without making waves loud and vibrant enough to shake the world. I am looking for the muse Einstein, Shakespeare and Michelangelo found. A piece of art so loud and pure that its reverberations have shaped or influenced every artist that has followed them.

Art is what defines humanity as human beings and not primates and its birth was the same act that started society. I am looking for a piece of visual language that is relevant and influential to all of us. A piece of the language that we as a people will remember long after I am dead, long after even the hint of my memory could exist. In short I am looking for a voice, looking for a way to capture everything I love and treasure and shape it into something that will hum and vibrate with meaning and importance in more futures than I can imagine.

I love subtle curves and bold colors, I love the hints of translucence in a sand cast surface, I love woods with wild grains and I love the smell of steel, I love how a perfect dove tail joint fits together. I love delicacy of fine craftsmanship. I love the unseen detail, the hours of excruciating work that may never been known or appreciated. I love the act of creation and the possibilities every piece of art might have.

A teacher I had used to say, “90% of a piece is in the last 10%”. I strive to create work that has even one single perfect detail. I am fascinated by the subtle moments of perfection one finds in a sculpture, the little details that are absolutely right. I want to be able to take those tiny moments and learn to transform them into a whole perfect piece and eventually if one can find and enlarge that perfection maybe you can channel it and bring it out into your life and then into the world. I try to create perfect moments in my life by creating perfect moments in my work.

Creating a blog? Smart or Procrastination

I posted some images of my work and will soon put up some of the things I have in progress. Today I am working on computer stuff, a couple job applications, research about grad schools and writing statements for grad school. Currently listening to the second Robert Jordan book. Hopefully I will get two or three pieces all the way finished and photographed this week. A coffee table that needs its copper legs patinad and wood stained, two cast boats with copper parts that will need tiny touch ups on their patinas but are pretty much good to go. Later this week I am hoping to get some small waxes cast in bronze or aluminum.