Fully Flummoxed

You ask:  What is it? I reply:  What do you want it to be? You ask: What does it mean? I reply: What do you want it to mean?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Yin and Yang

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I have trouble reconciling my desire to whack the hell out of stuff while welding with my desire to make little people that talk to me. Thi...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Total Disintegration

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Before . . . . . and . . . . . After The possum was part of Seth's Disintegration Collaboration project. "Was" is the operati...
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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Singing Tonsils

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My sister-in-law, Linda, took this picture of a Trumpet Vine. She likes to call it "The Singing Tonsils Vine". Spring has sprung ...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Falling Leaves

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I know you people up North will find this hard to believe but here in Texas we get to rake leaves TWICE every year. This picture was taken ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Suminagashi

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Susan speaks (for a change): I learned about suminagashi at a bookmaking meeting. I already had black sumi ink and I bought Photo-flo but b...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Fishing and Forget It

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These were welded out of old scraps of steel that students threw out. I rescued them and used a laser cut and a Mig welder to make them into...
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Sunday, March 22, 2009

SXSW Wraps Up

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SXSW is winding down. Basketball has its March Madness, we have our own version here in Austin. Who showed up? Kayne West, Jane's Addi...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

SXSW

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SXSW is here. If I didn't live here I'd have no idea that it was actually pronounced "South by Southwest". Don't call ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Now I've Got Trouble

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The taxes are finally done. This is what I look like now. Susan bought me this book. Help!
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Sunday, March 15, 2009

At Work

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We're doing our taxes today. And probably tomorrow. And maybe the next day, unless Susan smashes the computer monitor in. As you can se...
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Friday, March 13, 2009

The Soldiers

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I was visiting with my friend Jim at the Amtrak station and Susan wandered off down the railroad tracks where she spotted these pieces. They...
Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Disintegrating

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No, Bridget , animals won't carry my possum off. And no, you can't have him. I've put a nice little cage around him and since we...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Welding + Ceramics

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I miss welding but my elbows don't. When I was taking my welding classes I made a series of small sculptural pieces, mostly chairs, all ...
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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Bye, Bye Baltimore

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One last look at a piece by Jenny Mendes . I love her colors and style and this picture is going up on my bulletin board. Southwest got us...
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Friday, March 6, 2009

Baltimore-American Craft Council, Finale

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Lori Katz had very graphic black and white pieces. The black comes from the black clay being carefully inset, not from black glaze. She al...
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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Baltimore-American Craft Council, Part 2

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Jenny Mendes uses colors I really like and relate to, so seeing her ceramic sculpture work was a strong inspiration for me. Sometimes I thi...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Baltimore-American Craft Council, Part 1

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Please take the time to look at all the artists' websites. These images represent just a small portion of the great work we saw and we...
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Don Madden
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I did a job I hated for 32 years. I was very good it at. I didn't want to be a quitter so I kept doing it. Now I make art.  Now my life is good. Very good.
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