"Anger Management" and "Still Breathing"

"Anger Management" - Broken Glass,Ceramic Shard, Bandsaw Blades and recyced Glass

 

"Still Breathing"  -Ceramic shard

 

Mosaic Show - River Tree Arts

 Most on view through April at River Tree Arts, Kennebunk, Maine.

Top to bottom:  "Lost"  "The Airline Road",  "The Dam"

 I'm looking forward to being part of an "Artist Round Table" on Saturday related to the "Spring"

exhibition at River Tree Arts in Kennebunk,ME. I am exhibiting mosaics in this show related

to emotions and storytelling. This is "Eleventh Hour". We are facing so many "eleventh hours"....

 

Bike Part Spirographs at the Merry Maker Fair

I resurrected the Bicycle Chain Spirographs  for Biddeford's Merry Maker Fair. They were a standard offering of Bike Part Art at public events prior to Covid but I wasn't sure what to expect now. Happily, children still found them engaging and Adults had a moment of nostalgia to when they first came on the scene in the 1960's & 70's.  The challenge of pressing down and to the side at the same time with a colored pencil had a couple kids participating more than once.  I also tell the story of the inventor Denys Fisher. When I first created these, there was very little information about him but now there is more:

 A Biography written by his son! - https://denysfisher.com/

A BBC video:     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBvUahtCwqY&t=47s

Also many online sources for the Math behind this much loved and now nearly Vintage toy. 

  

              

NEW SIGN for the Pierson Lane Childrens' Garden Gate!

 

This is the back of the Pierson Lane Childrens' Garden sign still in process for attaching the molding. 

All the little critters were made by local youth  (and one mentor)  This was a "learning piece" but we hope to create more mosaics for Biddeford Gardens in the future! 

Pewter Casting this week!

I enjoyed pewter casting this week with youth from APEX Youth Connection. We were casting into kinetic sand molds that were impressed with shells, buttons and small forest creatures like turtles and frogs. 
 

"Robot on Fire "at the Becket Arts Center, Becket ,MA

  If you are anywhere near Becket ( about an hour west of Northampton, Ma) please stop in and see the  Members Show of the New England Mosaic Society, runs until May 25th.

My piece is glass on glass and relates to the fragility of Data Centers and how their content can be lost, especially to wildfires.