Red Thread

There is an ancient Chinese belief which states that there is an invisible red thread that connects each of us to all of the individuals who have been, currently are, and will in the future be important to us in our lives.
This red thread can stretch, twist, and bend… but will never break.

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A common concept, especially in series dealing with romances, is the Red String of Fate (akai ito or unmei no akai ito). The concept is that two people who are destined to be together are attached by an invisible red string bound from a male's thumb to a female's pinky finger (generally, though not always, at the first knuckle from the fingernail; also, nowadays it's become more common to show both parties attached at the pinky).

gluing, routing, sanding and painting bases for ceramic 'eye' domes...

Working on several ceramic domes that will hang from the wall. The viewer can 'peep' into these and experience different stimuli.  In process of routing wood frames.

Nature/Nurture

This ceramic, mix media sculpture has been in progress for awhile.

When I initially met my birth mother a few years ago, she gave me a ceramic snoopy figurine that she had glazed while pregnant with me. Adopted at only a few weeks old, my parents got a bright yellow plastic bunny for me. It was one of my favorite toys.

This project is about the nostalgia of objects in combination of my nature & nurture parental connections. Recasting both objects in an attempt to remove the original energetic sentiment - or what Walter Benjamin calls the 'aura' - and then assembling them in a narrative sculpture.

I still need to resolve what material to use for the table or alter top.

This is my first official entry on my blog. I am still not sure if this is going to be a good thing or not yet. I'm not sure I really even understand the blogg mind-set, but here I am giving it a whirl!

It seems the first thing that I need to do is establish a reason for a blog. No clear picture coming to mind, I think I will try using this as an artistic process page. In other words, I will try to convey any new art pieces from the very beginning of their conception through their completion to their end point.

The first sparkle of any idea is extremely fragile, just a little puff ball of seeds, that could be blown away in a gust of wind or, with patience and encouragement, take root. We'll see how sharing these actually works out!

And here it begins . . .