Work in the studio and work in the real world often intersect

  1. Our house is kind of like an art project. I found myself saying this to someone at dinner the other night. It’s true, when I’m not making things in the studio, I am creating environments and installations around our house and in our yard. Andy does this too. Its a portfolio of work that rarely gets seen by others, especially since COVID, which is when a good deal of work got done around here. At the end of summer I began building these low walls for new flower beds in our back yard. I’m using odd and ends of stone and brick that were already on the property when we moved in. I don't expect to finish before the frigid temps move in, so it will be a spring project as well.

  2. Andy & I and our friend Anita drove to Essex, MA this past weekend to Andy’s brother’s house. We planted hundreds of spring bulbs in the bed overlooking this view, in memory of Andy’s mother who recently passed away at 96, and his sister-in-law who passed away earlier this year. Hyacinths, narcissus, allium and tulips. The bulb-digging tool creates pockets that are the inverse of the forms I used to make my paper and wire salt bowls. Into each earthy divit goes a bulb that contains a promise. A burial for the purpose of generating life.

  3. The salt bowls are still in the works, and they are evolving. New materials are being incorporated. Right now I see them as cells, clusters of connection, like a the comb in a hive in a way. What more to say about them now, I don’t want to risk over-defining them until I’m more sure of what they are.

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