Medallia

I really enjoy making Medallia. I love making things that are small and can be carried in a pocket or purse. especially when they're wrapped in a kerchief for safe keeping. I guess its the old fashioned part of me; the part that loves writing letters, giving gifts to people for no particular reason, and old movies where the farewell scenes take way to long and include lots of intense stares.

I like the idea of important things that fit in the palm of your hand. not that i think the things i make are important.


I only have one more day to finish up for the upcoming show. I'm no where near being done....I did finish a couple more things though, so here they are! P.s. come to my show if your in NY on friday the 6th, free food, drinks, good people, and o yea, art.

Candlewood Lake

I got a lot of work done today! patinas! molds! photos! i even had time to make a mess!... o yea and i finnished this! I'ts Candlewood Lake, a large man made lake that is so large they had to flood three towns to make it. If you go scuba diving you can walk the streets and sit in ford model-ts if you want. There are lots of sad stories that go along with this, but good ones to. we now get tons of electricity generated by this lake. so i guess its a good thing...

I'm up early this morning, A little stressed but mostly excited about the upcomming show! I'll probably post photos later but here are some photos my friend Ashley Smith took of me for a project of hers. they should hold you over for a while

Hey! I have a show soon!!! here are a couple photos of some stuff that will be in it. I'm kinda keeping in line with the series i started a while back about pollution and environmental awareness, and I've started a new series about people I've worked with in the Human Services field. And as always, there are some things i just needed to make...

FUTURE SITE OF LANDFILL

Go to my show at the Plastic Club on Camac St in center city. Or just look at these. Bet you cant guess what these are about.

Medallia!!!

Recently I was commissioned to make the commemorative medal for the annual New Ideas In Medallic Sculpture exhibition. It was a great honor to be asked to make something like that. I’ve been in the show a couple times, its lots of fun and great talent to go see. So after months of planning, preparation, and hard work, including recovering my work when the foundry I pour in burnt down the day of my pour, the US Postal Service lost thirteen of my medals(maybe not meant to be eh?) The show goes on and is up right now with only the first medal of the batch I made. I’m working on making more, hoping the others are found. But I just got the pictures of the medals so enjoy   

Medallia is usually round, two sided and bronze since it originated from coin makers. With a title like New Ideas I decided to go squar, six sided. and aluminum. I would have loved to get more intricate but I had to make multiple identical medals and I’d never made an edition that big. I’ve been on this whole scientific kick for a while now so I decided to stick with that for this show. I milled a small block of wood with a lovely knot hole and hammered in small nails in the pattern that out galaxy makes, a pinwheel. I then sandblasted the grain out a little and  wood burned “New Ideas In Medallic Sculpture 2008~2009  and my signature on the four short sides. Then just mold, cast (15 times), sprue, slurry, pour, chase, patina and tada  The universe and a black hole  

Hey! I have a show on Nov. 1st at Rack and Hamper gallery aka Medialia in NYC. I have three pieces in the show which will be going on tour (Madrid, Lisbon, Philly and NYC) along with the commemorative medal for the show!! donate $150 to help the gallery and show and you get one of my little medals!

P.S by the way...There will be a show at the Aphrodite Gallery which is upstairs from Passional on 5th and Bainbridge, in december and i will be showing things ive made out of the broken things that Passional has rejected. It should be awsome. come.

New pictures!

Hey! I've been real busy lately, working, building, getting into trouble, you know, the usual. I've also been documenting, so....tada! pictures.

This first one is of my sister with glow stick glasses. It was a really long exposure, the longest i can do without a tripod. Have I mentioned that I love night photography? Its at a campground in Mass this past 4th of July.

Anyway this one below is this weird place i found in NOLA. I think it was some recreation of a tradeing post or something but its obviously fake and abandoned. I was excited about it. especially the colors.
OH OH OH this is one of the new Photos of Fishing for Answers. Its still hard to photograph even with the new lense. But i think you can kinda tell its a person now so yey. maybe i should not make things half an inch anymore......nah.

This is medalia i just made for a show in Manhatten. so both below and above fit in your hand. above is thread and aluminium, abstract and below is glass, lead, zink, steel, asitate and enamel. Its a glass book with plastic pages and a bookmark. the glass is fused together on the cloud bookmark end and it has hinges. this one, although bigger then a lot of myself was also really hard to photpgraph...cus its see through...
The last three pieces are not mine for the next year while on tour but I'm still selling prints, of the sculpture and photographs so let me know ifya want one. I'll post more info about the show when i get it. I do know its in NY though at Rack and Hamper Gallery, Medialia : .)

News!

Hey! I got three things for you this time! The first, a show(!) at 1523 N. Hancock St. Philadelphia PA, 19122. Its outdoors and there will be music, art and a good time. it starts at 5pm on June 28th. All are welcome. I like meeting new people so come! The second thing....I'm gonna put lots of randome pictures up by request! I like taking them of stuff i make and interesting things and sometimes i get carried away so here are some that i like. Oh and i got a new lense for my camera so im gonna put up new ones of fishing for answers because you cant really tell what it is in that picture....and...the third thing was....Oh new stuff that i made, i didnt print the pictures yet but i will soon. I swear.


Ok, so last year I went to Florida, to the everglades.

And to New York, NY, to Coney Island. They're gonna rip it down. I'm sad.

This was on the way home from Coney Island. Its New Jersey...

This is last christmas.....

And this is what happens when im left alone with my camera. I call them my Plastic Bags...