Sawflower - poor quality circular saw blades, frame springs, copper wire, nuts, bolts, terra cotta, plaster and soil; I made five of these for a reason other than the Halloweens for which they will surely be used

Clock - collage of newpaper and magazine images, acrylic paint, cork, one penny, screws, tabs, fortunes, and woodblock prints; Clown + Bodies + Pomeranian + Skulls + Time = On My Wall

Hand - wire, nuts, bolts, copper joints, etc; my hands hurt the next day after making this, which may one day receive the arm I intended for it...

the bog woman - the muddy corpse woman thing from the bog...

Run-Over-Me Elmo - Elmo, gelatin, pasta, acrylic paint, hot dogs; Elmo song.. Elmo fish Dorothy.. Elmo dance.. Damn it, I loathe Elmo. Elmo had to go. Elmo had to die. So I ran over Elmo with my car. Murder Elmo. Roadkill Elmo. Dead Elmo.

Hermes Da Vinci - leather, compressed particle material, wood, paper, glue; Project for Design class assignment "Cinderella's Revenge" - Concept: What Hermes Sandals might look like if designed by Leonardo Da Vinci.

The Meat Loafer - paper mache, acrylic paint, meatloaf pan, fresh parsley; Project for Design class assignment "Cinderella's Revenge" - Concept: Word Play on the combination of Meatloaf with the Loafer style of shoe.

Figure 13 - latex, acrylic, ink, pine, cedar, particle board, copper, steel, paper, felt, glue, polyurethane; regarding the issue of colony collapse disorder among honey bees and its far-reaching effects on agriculture, utilizing elements of muscle contraction theoretical models in producing a pattern that progressively breaks down as an analogue to the pollenation workforce's own crumbling strength

The Rhinosurreal - appropriated toy rhinoceros, meat thermometer, paper mache, acrylic paint; surreal exploitation of a found object, as per the project guidelines for a visual arts class.
Rhinoceros from another angle.

Los Muertos Borrachos - paper mache, fire, acrylic paint, polyurethane; I made this set of six silly martini-swigging skeletons a few weeks before The Kingdom of Loathing launched its first El Dia de Los Muertos Borrachos, so I took it on as the title, since I had been lost for one. The project for which these produced stipulated small art objects that would fit into an Art-o-Mat machine, which is a repurposed cigarette vending machine that dispenses - wait for it! - small art objects. I should probably send one to Jick one of these days.

Seated Woman, After Picasso - cardboard, hot glue, acrylic paint; I'm not fond of Picasso, so when we were assigned to produce a three-dimensional representation of a Cubist piece, and the most interesting one I saw was a Picasso, I made several endeavors to separate my piece from Picasso's painting, notably with a change of pose and more intensely cubist shaping.
You can see the original Picasso painting at this site entitled Woman Seated from 1908. 800 x 600 version

irgendwahn - the art book made with the poem of the same name, 14 wood panel pages designed, illustrated, painted, and extremely polyurethaned

Box #1 - Night Light : Perspective 1, Perspective 2, Open, Open and Lit, - white dogwood clay, glaze, wood, stain, various hardware, polyurethane, faux flowers; really lights up!

Box #2 - Jack-in-the-Box : Perspective 1, Perspective 2, Opened, Perspective 3, Deployed, - white dogwood clay, glaze, wood, stain, various hardware, polyurethane, faux fur, faux flower, old crocquet ball, copper wire; unfortunately, the spring is nonfunctional and this might not be changing for a long while as jack-in-the-box springs aren't exactly stocked anywhere. But this do look super creepy spooky!

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Coily Candle Cave - Ceramics - white dogwood clay with red streaks from extrusion; first ceramic thing I've made in like twelve years, so I wanted to start small with a roughly coffee-can-sized votive candle holder ... but it looks sorta like a cave house thing.

Nude Tubby Dude Incense Burner : Perspective 1, Perspective 2 - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, vanilla incense; this seemed really funny to me.

The Grimbles : Spooky View, Well-Lit View - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes; these little guys seemed really badass rad to me. This is the first set of Grimbles I produced, all of which I still have.

Skulls : A Serving of Skulls, Skulls Relaxing - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes; this seemed ultra badass rad to me. This summer I will make a checkers set like these.

Le Petite Morte - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes; a closer-up view of one of the first Grimbles I produced.

Wretched Head - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes; this is essentially a rough draft of something that I will build larger later.

Stygian Shark : Swimming Toward, Swimming Away - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, acrylic paint; the pictures do not quite do this piece justice, so here's a little visual walk-through. Everything glazed (shiny, irregular blue and grey) would be the "skin" or surface of the shark, while everything purple is recessed - crevices, gaps and such - where the "flesh" is "missing" and there are a lot of "quotation marks" thrown around the place.

Dangly Bones - white dogwood clay, earthenware slip paint, clear glaze; the second attempt at a string skeleton. SUCCESS.
The Full Frontal View

Grimbles, Batch 2 - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes; I neglected to take pictures of the whole group and sold five of them before I realized it, so nobody gets to see those again. This is the second set of Grimbles I produced.

Leprosy : Presentation 1, Presentation 2 - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, acrylic paint (scenery elements: sprig of floral decoration, plastic bits of something or other, feather, black faux fur, leather on a wooden base / painted wood block constructions, hemp rope, elevated on an old geometry book); Originally envisioned as one part of my "The Leper and the Squid" composition. (The squid refused to cooperate and struck out as a solo performer.)

Stygian Sharks (#2, #3, #4) - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, twine, wood, super glue, metal washers; these guys have been through a lot. The purple one (#3) was broken so badly one night, when some window blinds popped out of their brackets and fell on him, that he broke in three pieces! I glued him back together and then 'reinforced' him with wooden splints and twine. The brown and red one (#2) broke a fin tip while taking these portfolio shots!
Arrangement 2, Arrangement 3

Wretched Hands - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, wood, twine, faux fur, vinyl gloves; these things never went right. First one of the fingers dried weird, so I just snapped it off and whittled a wooden replacement, then some of the fingers didn't look good at all, so I added gloves. Then the blue pieces didn't match up with the orangey pieces correctly, so I fitted the gaps with faux fur and wooden splints. They looked pretty jacked up, though.
Another angle.

Tubeworm Bouquet - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, plaster, acrylic paint, spray paint, faux flowers; tubeworms, with little capillary-packed feedy filtery feathery bits. Measures something like 26" tall or so.

Eltzbedth - white dogwood clay, mixed glazes, wood, twine, feathers, faux flowers; this one has seen a lot of revision, originally having arms and legs (which I ultimately hated), and finally having her wings clipped before submission to a juried show so that she would fit into the display case. (Recipient of the Ben Franklin Crafts award, 2009)
Eltzbedth, version 1, Eltzbedth, version 1 from another angle

Squid - white dogwood clay, glaze, copper, leather, wooden beads, paint; my first ceramic squid. S'alright.

_construct : sub-gallery

The Dollhaus - featuring My Little Possessions, a series of bizarre sculptural assemblages utilizing dolls and whatever else I can find. (aka: Slash Dolls)

transbuild - taking old, junky Transformers and making them into something new...

More to come...

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