Wooden Alligator (a reconstruction)

Materials: Original piece was a combination stepladder, ironing board, chair. Nails, Wood Glue, Wood Tools, Table Saw, Sander Belt.  Goal: to create art that did not resemble the original chair and to use almost all the original materials.

Process: Find wooden "chair" at resale shop, Diassemble, Intuitive process included:

1. Create 4 legged body,

2. Create tail piece (removable).

3. Cut ironing board in half, used front curve of ironing board as mouth (mouth is on hinges so it can open and close), cut teeth.

4. Cut teeth and eyes.

Soap Eggs with Glass Carton

Materials: Soap, Sheet Glass

Egg Process: Liquify soap, pour into egg cast, let harden.

Glass Carton Process: Create clay mold of cardboard egg carton, fire in kiln. Coat clay with shelf resist, let dry. Cut sheet glass into random shapes, layer on top of clay mold in speical kiln. Fire for several hours, let cool.

I'm Obnoxious

Materials: Plexiglass, Paper, Brayer, Print making materials

Process: Paint on plexiglass, flip over plexiglass onto paper and smush with hands.

Splintered

Materials: Vintage Window, Splintered Saftey Glass (discovered dumped on side of dirt road), Super Glue.

Installation: Outside Natural Setting

Minature Historical Water Pitcher

Materials: Clay, Slip, Glaze

Process: Coil technique, create feather stencil (picture 2) on news print and applied to pitcher with painting the white slip on top of stencil temporarily adhering to pitcher. Removed stencil and painted blue glaze in negitiative space. Fired in electric kiln.

Golden Bowl

Materials: Clay, Salt Kiln

Process: Kick Wheel, Pedestal Foot, oxidized in salt kiln.

Lotus Egg

Materials: Egg Shells, Plaster, Super Glue

Wheat Bowl

Materials: Clay, Glaze

Family Tree in Carton

Materials: Cardboard Egg Carton, Red Wax, Resin, Vintage Family Photos, Zots Adhesive.

Installation: Wall

Carton Process: Coat carton with melted red wax, allow to dry. Pour resin over surface, allow to dry.

Vintage Family Photos: Digital photos of vintage photos, used Picasa to shrink, printed onto regular paper, cut to size.

Final Assembly: Applied Zots to back of photo and arranged at bottom of carton.

Japanese Tea Bowls

Materials: Clay, Glaze.

Process: Kick Wheel, Glaze. 

Pencil Drawing

Materials: Graphite

Process: Graphite on paper, grid-based drawing of photograph of Kate Hudson

Film

Materials: Minolta 35mm film camera

Process: Dark room

Earth Eggs

Materials: Resin, Wooden Spheres, Acrylic Paint

Earth Process: Wooden spheres painted to resemble planet earth with acrylic paint.

Resin Egg Process: Silicone mold of eggs which were cut on the top half to allow resin to be poured. Molds poured half way full, partially dried, earth spheres added at the time. Resin dried fully, add resin to fill to the brim. Allow to dry, remove from molds, arrange as desired.