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.