More Books… Finally

 Patience.   So much patience. Finally three more altered book sculptures from my 10-volume World’s Popular Encyclopedia, 1937, series are finally done and photographed.  Pictured here is a closeup of Volume 5, Heart/Heat.  The sculpture is made from Volume 5 itself, set on a base salvaged from an old Singer Sewing Machine table that my […]

Waiting for Paint to Dry

Alas! Acrylic has never been my medium. In my hands I have always found it inelegant and clumsy. This is not to demean any of my wonderful artist friends who handle it so well. My pet peeve has been how quickly it dries. Nonetheless I do use it from time to time as underpaint or […]

photo: John Polak

The Gumball Saga

I bought this gumball machine several years back from a yard sale in Boulder.  It’s a little nicked here and there and was missing it’s top connector-thingy.  For several years now I have imagined filling it with bullets as a sculpture.  Well, little did I know.  A few weeks back I stopped into Dick’s Sporting […]