The Withered Alchemist

Now, here is my newest piece. Made from some old snake bones, porcelain insulators, and a paper clip...It's the face. Found in a old bookstore, attached to a book and covered with dust; this guy needed to have a life. I have held on to him for quite sometime before I figured out who he was, or who I though he should be. Like Frankenstein hunting down all his body parts to create man, I finally gave him life. So here he is.

Body Parts: Paper Clip, The Brain: Bubinga wood(upholstered), porcelain insulators, snake vertebrae, brass fishing swivel, spur chain, bronze artifacts, glass heishi beads, Roman glass foil bead, old keys, waxed linen thread,and tuxedo buttons.

Amalgamation of a Midnight's Pass Final

Well here it is. It was a great learning experience in cold connections and helped me bounce right to the next piece. Here is a picture of me in my studio where I work. I have recently applied to grad school at ECU in Greenville, NC. I hope to study under Robert Ebendorf who pretty much created is the man when it comes to working with found materials. I am pretty excited about the opportunity and can't wait to get there.

Here is a much better picture

"Amalgamation of a Midnight's Pass" in process part 2

Well, I have decided how to approach the inner workings of the pocket watch case. There is a small space inside of the case that would hold the guts of the watch, that space will be perfect to wedge a bezel type setting for this beautiful sliver of blue glass. I have shaped it to follow the contour of the case. I will later drill holes I the small piece of glass and create a setting for the glass to look like the night sky...the nail biter!







Here is a piece that I have been working on for the past month with some elements that I have had for the past 5 years. The idea is to have it swing in the negative space of the spur. The inside of the pocket watch ( I paid two dollors for), has yet to be figured out. I want to create space but I do not want to use any type of resin... Back to work!

More will be next week

Some more older work

Some older work

Old growing into something new

Here is some of my newest collage work.
"The Popular Edition"
"Contro"