Well, returning to the blog after a long,(but too short)semester studying for my MFA at ECU I have a wealth of work to show case here. I am really excited to have received my Assistantship within the program and can not wait to next semester. I know it will fly by but creating a ton work, will for me capture the essence of that time and place in my own mind. So back to the work, I started the semester like I like to start most of my work, very spontaneous in it's form but reserving and thoughtful through out the entire process. I had no clue where the semester would take me and I experienced so many little hardships that seemed stupid but were like a vice crushing me inward revealing my inner makeup. No matter how much I hated one direction, if I gave my self the chance to look at the situation or the work in a different way it helped me to understand the possibilities that could come to light within that idea. If there could be some content within these pieces it would be my own mind, a spontaneous personal pack rat nest of my own make up, reserved in these objects of my own personal desire crushed in by a bench vice like those hardships that have ended up revealing to me that inner glow and makeup that can make us all so special. There are 10 total pieces that were created as a series of sculptural adornment. They all can be worn and have a small wall mount piece that was created for the piece to hang when not worn. Here are the 9 left of my own pack rat nest of personal adornment. They are made up of steel wire, copper wire, cotton coated thin copper wire, brass wire, cotton coated electrical cords, and various objects locked within. They are all about 4 to 5 inches the length of chain and cord vary.

Watch out there is a Brooch! New Work #1

Here are some new brooches from the Ephemeral Element Studio. All of them have a story, about there origin and materials used. They are all are for sale and range from $40 to $70 dollars. Very inexpensive for a one of a kind conversation starter. If interested in Anything you see, please use my email at the top left of my page. and send me a description of the item you like. I hope you like what you see and there will be more to come...lots more!

New Work # 2

Here we have two neck pieces that have been recently completed. The one on bottom is titled "The Long Island Iced Tea Party" complicated name for a simple piece, but that's the humor of the relationship between colors and objects.
Made from a brass tea strainer, coral, art deco beads, sterling salt spoon, nut shell, fly fishing lure, fishing swivel's, brass nails, wood drawer pull, and electrical cotton cord to rest on the neck.

The other one is made from a milk glass mason jar top, brass scuba tank shop stamping, fool's gold(pyrite), red Garnet bead, old medical paper of the lungs, brass wire, sterling fork prong for the clasp. Called "The Treasure Hunter"

Blackbeard's Whisper

Well I have been in North Carolina for two weeks, the girl is doing well at her job, she got the promotion to come here. Any who last week I ventured back over to Greenville to have a meeting with Scott Eagle the head of the Art department at ECU's graduate school. A couple of days before I went I completed this piece. I wanted to have something new to show him and this just came out of thin air. Taking front stage with this one are the old corset and/or shoe buttons. I had a few but the first day I was here, I went to a couple of stores and found a lot more. I kept seeing these buttons all bunched together, but I needed to ground it with some focal point to tie it together, and now I give you "Blackbeard's Whisper"

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