Still Life........

here is a shot of one of my mock ups for a new line of wall sculptures.....

i carved it originally out of jeweler's wax, then had it molded and cast in resin.....

it is a replica of a 1965 SLR camera. i made a little hole in the back so it hangs right on the wall.

it is about 1.5 inches tall and 3 inches long.......goes perfectly with my mini replica of a 1960's airstream trailer i did and cast in bronze. i titled that piece "blue skies ahead"(a favorite saying of my father's, and family motto). each piece in this series comes from memories in my own childhood.

a new year, a new day, a new leaf

i am working on a leaf now..... for my Valentine series.....

and somehow someway i want to include this poem on it or with it:

"I celebrate myself

And what I assume you shall assume

for every atom belonging to me,

as good as belongs to you."

Walt Whitman

Leaves of Grass

new work for a new year

i am working on this new line, to be in white resin with gold accents......

thought i would do a traditional rose but somehow that just seemed too boring....ended up with this.......

it still needs some work. not even sure if i will use it. feels good to be making new stuff though.

am hoping to get a few new pieces out for valentine's day.

tis the season

to do something new.....i spent most of august in Norway, alot of it in Stavanger on the fjord where my mother grew up.....every evening the swallows would fly swooping up and over the lawn and back into the trees. it was beautiful and haunting ....a homecoming for them, for my mother (who i went with) and even for myself and my kids.

i have always loved the swallow, loved that it comes back each year to it's home. i moved so much as a kid this holds a lot of resonance for me.

here is a rough sketch of a new piece, a flying swallow. a bit of a sailor jerry influence at this point (i do have a sailor jerry tatoo) we will just have to see where this all evolves too!

Finally

my work is on the Westside.......come check out UNDISCOVERED, right next to HEIST at 1100 Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice Ca.

And since I don't have a picture of the store, I thought I would show a picture from the Westside, and of my fabulous studio assistant (and daughter) gathering up her favorite thing, rocks.

Benefit for Japan

Larry, the owner of OK is doing a pop up shop inside Tortoise, an amazing Japanese design store on Abbot Kinney in Venice. He asked myself and several other of his artists, including Caleb Siemen ( he does beautiful glass pieces) and the fab jeweler Margaret Solow, (I buy one of her pieces of jewelry for Amber every year without fail) to donate.

The pop up shop will be going on until May 8th and the best part about this is that 100% of all proceeds go to benefit KAP, a non profit organization that provides direct aid to those in need in Japan.

Check it out, not only will you be donating to a much needed cause but you will be getting some wonderful objects in return.

P.s. Also check out OK's eclectic table full of art, design, and humor books. I am including a photo I took one of my favorites.

you win some you lose some

i dont know how often people talk about jobs they lost...i wish they would a bit more...that said i personally was just going to delete my last blog, but since i seem incapable of working a computer, and i cant figure out how to delete it, i will simply have to give you the followup to the last blog.

i tell my kids all the time, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, that really that is just a part of life.

and so now (as i pick myself up and dust myself off,) i will say comedy central is not going to use my award for the main award. they have gotten the rights to johnny carson's mike. and even as i was listening to them tell me this, i thought well of course not....his mike is iconic, i would do the same thing if i were in their shoes......

my father use to say, "if you ship doesn't come in then swim out to it"

i think i will just go for a hike instead.