| MY ARTWORK |
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| This is the oldest piece of my artwork that I have. It is a red clay sculpture I made sometime during the second to forth grades. |
| This is a breastplate styled after Native American attaire. I used copper wire to string the pipe bone between leather strips and semi-precious stone beading. The spot over the heart has a valentine shaped bloodstone jasper pebble and is the center point of a pattern of beads that represent the Four Directions. Above the heart stone is six white quartz beads for the North. To the right for East are six yellow semi-precious stones. Below the heart stone for the South are six red jasper stones, and to the left for West is Black Onyx. A quartz crystal mounted in a copper ring is over the sternum to represent male power. Turkey feathers that were chewed on by a raccoon (that's another story) hang from the leather straps. You can see a photo of the raccoon on my photogallery page. A choke collar is incorporated into the breastplate. |
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| This is a White Tailed deer buck skull mounted over a turkey tail. Both animals I hunted. A picture of the buck after I killed it is on my hobbies page. |
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| This is my most spiritual piece of artwork. It took over two years to bring it into reality. As one consequence of my explorations of my own internal conflicts and the outer world conflicts of male and female energies, I got the idea to place a yoni shaped geode and a phallac shaped crystal face to face. After making a small test piece, I started looking for the pieces to make the idea real and found the crystal and geode both at Crystal Works at 12th and Lamar here in Austin. The clerk, Felica, gave me a little discount on the geode sensing good things to happen. I then had to find a good base. One day, off goofing around behind in a creek behind the residence of a freind which is very close to the intersection of Silvermine and Highway 71 West, I literally stumbled over a limestone rock that I suspected would serve as the base. After a good cleaning to remove the mud and a small stone carefully placed to level it, I set the crystal in the spot you see there. Although the base of the crystal was a jagged angle, it balanced itself perfectly in that position on the first try. Such Magick! The geode needed a little more help to sit straight but it aligned nicely to the crystal. I mounted the pieces in their respective positions and this art has served as a balancing instrument for male and female energies ever since. |
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| I used only a sharp pocket knife to whittle out this letter opener and head pieces. The horsehead letter opener I did in my early twenties and the head I made in my very late teens. When I get so old and feeble that all I want to do is sit in a rocking chair on the front porch, I'll take up whittling again to occupy myself. |
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