Showing posts with label What I create. Show all posts
Showing posts with label What I create. Show all posts
10/28/22
Shawl
Pearl is modeling a shawl I made of wool and upcycled doilies. It sold (for 8 hundred) to a woman in FL who "will use it in my dolls stroller."
3/15/22
8/9/21
La petite porch studio
That summer when I created new studio space outside.
"There are two other huge studios in the building."
Yes, but one is for textile work and the other is organized for the cases!
It's a good thing we've a second floor.
"There are two other huge studios in the building."
Yes, but one is for textile work and the other is organized for the cases!
It's a good thing we've a second floor.
7/22/21
Vessels
Sometime back in the early 90s I had a vision of these vessels. I was obsessed with the chucks of Dalle de verre glass used in church windows. Requiring technique along with other info, I went to Mithra to discuss my vision with Hank.
You can't do that, said Hank.
I had been wanting to use pottery as the base and build up but Hank insisted it wasn't possible.
I took a glass with him. I thought a foundation class with him would allow me to ideate.
4 months later I went back into the shop with a piece and Hank said, I guess you can do that.
Please note the vintage flash bulb in the second vessel.
You can't do that, said Hank.
I had been wanting to use pottery as the base and build up but Hank insisted it wasn't possible.
I took a glass with him. I thought a foundation class with him would allow me to ideate.
4 months later I went back into the shop with a piece and Hank said, I guess you can do that.
Please note the vintage flash bulb in the second vessel.
2/10/21
2/9/21
2/8/21
Custom order
Headed to L.A. Prior to Covid 80% of my cusotmer base was southern CA, studios, movie industry, and stars :/
I can't drop customer names however a hyper rare Orry Kelly necktie went to a man....no, I still can't. But that Orry Kelly Necktie was most likely the only of his neckties to have survived.
I can't drop customer names however a hyper rare Orry Kelly necktie went to a man....no, I still can't. But that Orry Kelly Necktie was most likely the only of his neckties to have survived.
1/24/21
Making Things out of other Things
I am challenged by materials. It's my primary motivation.
I can find something in an alley and instantly see it in a finished project.
I don't call this imagination, it's too immediate. It's not even a process. I can see it transported into a beautiful thing.
maybe it's alchemy.
I used to design jewelry and developed a business with three sales reps. My jewelry was in all midwest and southwest galleries and museum gift shops including SLAM, The Walker Museum, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
I stopped designing jewlery when the internet flattened the market and started designing other things: clothing, belts, curtains, hats, etc.
Here's another belt that I made.
I can find something in an alley and instantly see it in a finished project.
I don't call this imagination, it's too immediate. It's not even a process. I can see it transported into a beautiful thing.
maybe it's alchemy.
I used to design jewelry and developed a business with three sales reps. My jewelry was in all midwest and southwest galleries and museum gift shops including SLAM, The Walker Museum, and The Art Institute of Chicago.
I stopped designing jewlery when the internet flattened the market and started designing other things: clothing, belts, curtains, hats, etc.
Here's another belt that I made.
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