mixed media collage/ sculpture(rusted sheet metal, bingo chips, wire, flour sack, wood and paper ephemera on oval canvas) I found this piece of rusted sheet metal on our street two weeks ago while on a walk with Stella and another neighborhood mom and her littlest son. Isn’t it great! Like a topographical map or the…
Archives for July 2007
Get Ready. Get Set.
"Get Ready. Get Set."10" x 8" mixed media sculpture and collage(wood, ephemera, wire, matchbox, nails, flour sack) I like this piece. The other day I started collaging a rectangular scrap of wood and as it went along it started to look a bit like an urban landscape to me. It wasn’t quite big enough on…
this made my day
Nest of thread VII is the featured piece on the Three Graces Gallery website announcing the upcoming show, "Things With Wings." That was exciting to see this morning. I will spend the first week of August getting everything ready for the show and then I will be driving to Portsmouth, NH, on Monday, August 6,…
hunger 4 you
"hunger 4 you"mixed media sculpture (linen, wood, wire, glass bead, paper ephemera) A few weeks ago I responded to a post on Craigslist – someone in my neighborhood was giving away a bunch of scraps of wood. I went over there one evening after putting the kids to bed and got a lot of great…
ox and cart
I made something new. And it’s not a bird. This piece started with the head. I had decided to make a doll and to try a head with little darts all around the face, but once it was stuffed it started looking more and more like a muzzle to me, suggesting a cow. So I…
where 2?
where 2?mixed media shadow box(fabric, wire, compass, dice and wood) This piece is appropriately titled. I really need to move on now to something new. I guess I’m a bit afraid, strangely feeling out of the swing of making things besides birds. I did some sketching last night and cleaned up all the little messes…