Obsessive geometries and processes, cnc routers/new technologies .... And Perhaps a temporary lapse in sanity

So I have been thinking about barrels, walls and arches.  Casting more glass than is entirely good for me especially considering the heat and humidity has already settled back into New Orleans.  That and I have been stacking things, over and over . . .  

I guess I have been making glass bricks for an installation 

 Each configuration I stack them in only tends to further my thoughts that I need more.  I am looking into that Fantasia thing and trying to figure out how to magic them into making more of them self but failing that I will keep casting more.

 I have been doing some research into masonry and wall making and how to stack things so when it gets big enough it can't fall down and kill people.

 So I have also been thinking about barrels and CNC routed these polygonic circular forms for yet more rectangles to interact with.  In theory both these pieces should be done very soon.  The glass is all cast and drilled.  The smaller one in the above picture is going to get bound with leather or rawhide.   But I don't really know anything about that process so I guess I will keep my fingers crossed.

This bigger barrel form is going to have the glass bolted to the plywood, with bolts that believe it or not are called sex bolts or barrel bolts, which seems appropriate and ironic in equal measure.   

So these are renderings of some of the things I have been thinking about.

I will have more resolved photos of things soon hopefully.  

Frantically making things, but not blogging about it

I have been neglecting my blog since I started graduate school.  Mostly because I am pretty much too busy to do even normal things like laundry or feed myself.  So blogging keeps being one of those things I intend to do never manage it.  But I figured I should post some of the things I have been making.  This is by no strench everything I have made just some finished peices that I am reasonably happy with the photography of.

Sandstone Canyons, Stone and Cast glass

I probabbly should have a whole post dedicated just to this piece.  It sorta kicked my ass for a long time and kinda still is. . . There are a bunch of potential titles for it and I plan on installing it a couple more places.

 Cast glass, concrete .  . . no title yet 

Sandstone Tower, Cast glass and Stone 

 Clock Tower, Cast glass and Concrete 

Cairn for Lost Roads, Cast glass and Concrete

 I have been making a series of cast glass Mono Prints or Drawings ... There is a bunch more that are either have not been photographed yet or not photoshopped yet.   I was thinking of calling this one 
"The Falls I've Missed"

Show at NHTI Concord Library

So a lot of things exciting things have happened since I last posted, or made anything.  I spent a bunch of time climbing and traveling and not making things.  It is actually one of the things I missed most, well that and IPAs.  But since I have been back in the states I found I got into Grad School!!! So I will be going back to school in the Fall to get my MFA and I hung a show at the NHTI library in Concord NH I am Having a Closing Reception this Sunday March 30 5-7 pm I will make sure there are some delicious things to eat.  If you are in the area I would be psyched if you stopped by.


Oh and because all blogs need pictures here is something I am working on,  I taught my buddies casting class while he was away and cast the glass a couple weeks ago as a color Demo.  I am tentatively thinking of calling it Sun Sled.

Note the beer in the back ground, it is an important part of the process.  Specially after so many glue joints.  The copper is glued together, not soddered.  

 There are days when I am working I feel more like a mad scientist than an artist.  I also spent three hours at Lowes looking through hardware and plumbing supplies, the employees look at you funny when you stack a variety of nuts and bolts onto a glass thing and mutter to yourself.  Go figure.

New Photos

So I had a bunch of work shot with my photographer Mark.   He as always is the MAN!  Its kinda a bit of smorgishborg of work.  Some peices that are part of my Wood Doodle series a couple tables.  I like tables its weird I know and a couple glass and wood peices.  

Enjoy

 Wood Doodle # 6

Core Drilled  

 Detail

Wood Doodle # 3

 Wood Doodle # 9

Wood Doodle # 7 

Wood Doodle # 10

And the Thunder

The peice is back lit here with two gheto tap lights but ideally I would build a little light box in the wall it was mounted on.  

Copper Leged Table 

Invented Grains End Table # 2 

Invented Grains End Table # 1

I will update my website eventually but it always takes a little while and I sort of hate doing it.   Blog posts are much simplier.   There is one more peice I got shot but I think I only have a TIFF at the moment so that will get posted later.   In general I am proud of doing something remotely productive on thanksgiving.   But now I can succumb to my Turkey induced coma.  

Unemployment suits me

So for those of you that don't know this I am running away to Mexico for the winter and am applying to grad school for next fall.  In order to do both of those things I quit my job.  Apparently unemployment suits me.   Go figure, below is an assortment of things I made progress on yesterday and today.  Two end tables, one stained with teak oil, the other with Danish . . . it is a pretty similar finish teak is a touch darker. (first image)  Then there is a wall mounted wood and glass sculpture and a wall mounted pine and plywood sculpture and a pine and plywood drawing I guess.  I will have better photos soon; I am seeing my photographer next week.  

 This piece is going to be called "And The Thunder" or Psychedelic Ant Farm 

This is the first finished 2/d peice I have made since maybe my freshman year of college

So I like Clamps a lot.

So I have been making these pine and plywood lamination peices at work as sorta an excercise in doodlying in wood, but they are looking like they will end up being funiture, I also have some ideas for some sculptural shelves and things.  The whole series sorta started when I needed to make a thank you gift for my buddy who downloaded me like 6 months of audio books making work much more enjoyable and my trying to find ways to use some of the truely horrifying amount of scrap we produce at my job.  Also I have been tryign to take more pictures of things in process.  Mostly so I will have more things to bore all the people who don't read my blog, which I don't update often enough anyway.  

This is a series of peices in progress. 

This will eventually sort of match the more finished table you will see in a few more images 

Table top early stages 

table leg step 1

Table leg step... let see.  Cut plywood, laminate plywood, drill holes with forstner bit, cut laminated plywood glue in strips of pine

Step 5 table leg

I don't think the legs are actually attached in these shots but oh well,  I used screws and 1/2 dowls to cover the screws, so five half in circles per leg, matching the five 2 circles in the legs.  Sort of anyway.  In theory the first image will match this table in height and size, and get the same legs but with the ratio of pine to plywood switched.

Two process shots for next peice 

These last two peices are both, Pine, Plywood and Cast glass and end up on the wall eventually