my new series

i am so tired i dont even know what the date is, not that i ever really did.......just went to my foundry today and picked up a bunch of my nests and some other pieces for my stores.....i love my casting guy...does the best work. now it is just about finding the time and energy for this new series...i was thinking today that i really havent done a sculpting series, and certainly not a bronze series that was not primarily done for my stores....and what i am doing, exploring memory and impermanence, i am finally sculpting from a part of my self that all seems to have come together...strange it has taken me sooo many years to get here, of course my focus was really more the high end design stores, so this is different and feel so good and scary.

i am also in the midst of editing and retooling the pieces in my new series as i go, i am so glad for all of the years of doing work for different stores, consignments etc because it has enabled me to be able to step back and view my art for what it is, a piece of work.

amber has come in and given me some great feedback, i love her eye, she is so talented at all of what she does, so i changed my branch - my memory tree on monday. ripped, cut and hammered the base of it off and put on a large root ball that i still now have to sculpt. that has changed the dynamics of the piece is such a more powerful way. and now we are just looking at the nests, i will do 18 of them, one for each place i lived as a child, instead of the boxes...finally giving up the boxes!!! have tried to make that piece work for year and now i am admitting to myself (and all) that they just dont work, something amber has been telling me for years. but the nests are a great replacement, and now i am editing those, with her help, and having to do some recasting, but i would rather pay more to redo them then to use the ones that dont work. i will have to upload pics of the process, really fun, the kids love it to.

that is it for now, have to help M'Lady (known as amber to the outside world) pack easter baskets for the kids.