please note that this is a draft copy, as it were.
Til later. JD. [email protected]
I make clocks by hand using a variety of media and inspirations.
This piece was a standard mantle clock until I started thinking about how the rainbow is really a circular phenomenom. The colors on the clock continue around on the other sides, adding a really neat layer of inversion to the one-dimensional circularity of each flat face. The hands and numerals of the finished pieces are quite different.
Rex is the result of the collision of a book and my interest in crafting. There's an old (mid-60s?) boys' book from which Rex's inspiration came. Although you can't tell from the picture, Rex is reaching out to shake hands. His arms are free-swinging. My children designed his instrumentation.
The piece is Styrofoam, wood, and acrylic paints, about roughly 12" x 7" on a 5" x 3.5" x .5" base.
This one is a declutterer. Two sides have picture frames while the third is a clock face made of jewels and rhinestone buttons. You can keep the piece as a triptych sort of thing or form it into a triangle. Cords wrap around buttons to keep it how you want it. I think it's neat. Nobody else seems to. Oh well.
It's made of fabric and batting over cardboard with cording and decorative jewels and rhinestones. Dimensions are 9.5" h x 6" x 6" x 6" x 5.5".
This one came to me when thinking of how much I've changed since the real world began to scrub off my idealism. Another name for this piece is thus "post-Vegetarianism."
The piece is china and miniature vegetables and fruit. The hands are red. Paints are acrylic. Dimensions are roughly 10" circumference x 2.5".
This piece is undergoing a face lift. I changed my mind on how the veggies related to one another. It will be back soon.
My 9-year-old daughter thinks that the waning moon is far more interesting than the waxing. Don't ask me why she thinks that; I don't know. Here is my interpretation of her belief in the essential coolness of the world.
The piece is oils and dimensional paints on mounting board. The asteroids are polished stones strung on silver wire. The dimensions are roughly 8" x 6" x 1.5".
I've also made variations on this theme with waxing moons and using different color spans. It amazes me how the mood of this piece changes.
This one came to me while wishing that I had more TIME: time to pick up, time to play with the kids, time to do something by myself. I picked up the animals I had stubbed my toes on, started playing around with them, and finished long after the kids had gone to bed. Life is indeed good.
This piece is paper mache, acrylic paints, and plastic safari animals. Dimensions are roughly 6" x 8" x 1.5".