photos from christmas eve at the park

Christmas Eve at Union Square Park

Latest for Rene

The dragon pattern on her mirrors the figure as it also has a protruding belly.

The Acorns are back

They help me figure out all the emotions that I never knew I had, they are relateable, they are my past, present, and future.  They are my harlequin.

First Steps

Today I began to seriously take on the task of getting into grad school.  I emailed the department for a little more detailed information regarding the twenty images I need to submit as my portfolio and began to choose the pieces I want to include.  So far I have chosen fifteen pieces so I need five more.  I am going to begin photographing them ASAP so that I can begin the application process. There will be pieces made in ceramic and bronze hopefully showcasing my range of mediums.  And not kicking the craft to the side, I will include some polymer clay figures as well.

First Steps

Today I began to seriously take on the task of getting into grad school.  I emailed the department for a little more detailed information regarding the twenty images I need to submit as my portfolio and began to choose the pieces I want to include.  So far I have chosen fifteen pieces so I need five more.  I am going to begin photographing them ASAP so that I can begin the application process. There will be pieces made in ceramic and bronze hopefully showcasing my range of mediums.  And not kicking the craft to the side, I will include some polymer clay figures as well.

Bronze Casting on Monday, November 30th 2009

Seven of us cast our pieces at the Art Students League Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York.
You can see the work of art in the wax form in the previous blog and its just absolutely amazing to see the transformation from wax into the beautiful bronze.  It is a metamorphosis of sorts as the light weight and flexible wax becomes the heavy, immobile bronze.  The color is amazing already, my last piece oxidized and was blackened when it came from the mold, but this piece was shining.  It was an emotional moment when she was revealed due to all of the expectations, the hopes and fears about whether the piece would cast.  She cast amazingly well, the details on her face, hands, and masks is all present, the flashing is mostly on the sides and I couldn't have asked for more.  Thanks to Oscar Garcia and the staff on hand who helped make this a success!

Blue Maple Leaf

This piece was made while waiting for my bronze piece to be cast yesterday at the Art Students League Vytlacil campus in Sparkill, New York. I walked around and picked up a dried maple leaf and decided to use it as a motif on her body. The polymer work is heading in this direction of repeated pattern rather thoroughly and I like what I see so far.

taciturn

When I first met you, you asked me why I drew a sad face on you. Its because I knew you would bring about much sorrow.


Why are you so speechless?

Dont be sad

The egg represents perfection.  The egg here is partially shattered - the painful reality of discovering that nothing is perfect. The figure is in the moment of discovery, partial shock, saturation of reality.

The figure, encased in the egg - naive, blissfully ignorant, finally sees reality when the egg is broken open.  Perhaps the shards which are in the inside of the standard chicken egg can be placed back together for a more understandable construction of reality.

Midnight Blues

I wanted adult female proportions for this miniature figure, yet I wanted the same detailing as in my larger figures, and I did it. I made her hand one finger at a time, instead of the mitten method of old times… the mitten method is where you make a mitten and draw three lines in it to look like fingers. I hand painted on a necklace and an Egyptian eagle tattoo - symbol of power. Her dress exposes her thigh on one side - freedom from restrictions.  Her eyes are closed - trusting intuition. The outstretched hand is symbolic in a lot of my figures, the open hand either receives or offers, alluding to the universal energy which flows through us, to give is just as important as to get and she is getting.  I put her next to one of the older figures and you can see how quickly they were made, they were in a way mass produced even though they were handmade, now each and every figure is going to be a work of art.  This new method takes a ridiculous amount of time to complete one figure, but its worth it.