Not just ready-mades...
Seeing scrap metal always makes me itch. I want to take all that voluminous discard (beer bottle caps, wire coathangers that accumulate in spindrifts, foil labels) and give it a new lease on life instead of letting it languish in our trash.
Tansu
I grew up in a household that had floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and even the bookshelves were built by my father, who loved woodworking.
I've developed a fascination with specialized but practical, multi-use cabinets and furniture, such as Japanese 'tansu' or 'step-cabinets' and I've always wanted to build some of my own. Now that I'm in my own studio space, I'm free to build, make a big mess, (and make mistakes in the process) without getting in anyone else's way.
Books
Yes, I read a ton of books, as you'll see. But I also make them, as a form of expressing a narrative.
Semi-coherent benedictions
...this will be an ever-evolving space where I post images from works in progress, materials exploration, responses to current topics (and old topics I have an inscrutable urge to pick up, dust off, and sound off about), and occasional announcements.
Please stand by.
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Open Studios and Events
Eventually I'll return to opening my studio doors...but right now my focus is on completing projects rather than endlessly starting new ones. I have plenty of projects that I need to complete, and project ideas (in notebooks) to jump on. I just need the hours and energy and bandwidth to complete some of them.