Double Double Meaning

This is a cast glass piece that is entitled "Pacifiers." It may be hard to see in the image but the nipples of the baby pacifiers are cast glass bullets. War and violence holds such an odd place in our society, from the way we protest military action to how we hunger for violence and bloodshed in the cinema. Sometimes when I reflect on my childhood I consider how I was almost raised on war, in movies, games, toys. This in no way suggest that I had a poor or unhealthy childhood, but rather just a contemplation on what is normal in our culture.

Beginnings and Endings

This piece is actually shown here in its second incarnation. I'd presented it before but the ink splotches were not right, they were blobby, here they are much more distinguished. This piece is called Drowning, and its hard to see but there is actually a green frog coming out the faces mouth. It is my face. If the matters.

Art in motion

This piece was completed last year, and was my first foray into video documentation/art. To me this piece says a lot of different things, I think it speaks a lot louder than most of my other works. I like whales, a lot, and I don't like that they still get hunted, but I was also very interested in the visual aspects of this work. I'd never really done time based sculptural work before, but I was so happy with how this turned out that I tried again with a polar bear themed piece that I will post later.

Nature

This is a piece I did last year. The object is a cast glass paw with a dagger stabbed into it (the dagger was an inclusion.) The loudness of this work was really fun to play with, it is "so in your face" that it almost goes too far and becomes almost joking. The quote is important for many reasons but one of the things I was really interested in was the temporal relationship between the dagger, an ancient and crude weapon, and the attitude of science and progress associated with that phrase. Just something to kind of turn over in your head.

The Beginning

The posts are not necessarily being made in chronological order, but I do not think that is of major importance. The above pictured work is one of my more recent pieces. I have been flameworking for about a year and a half now and I have always found it to be perhaps the most relaxing and simultaneously stressful methods of crafting ever conceived. In this case the tentacles of the squid were a complete nightmare and refused to obey me, their creator, and chose rather to twist at their own fancy. The whale on the other hand was much easier, whales are perhaps the animal I have produced the most reproductions of, followed closely by bears.