tin and marriage...

Just thought I would post this commission I finished up a couple of weeks ago. The couple will be getting married the first week of September in New Mexico, and the bride had seen my table numbers in a past issue of 'Somerset Wedding 2'.

These table numbers I made by embossing tin, bronze and copper sheets and wrapping them around a 4x6 template. For the family tables I attached photographs from the happy couples family and childhood the others were embellished with milagros, flaming hearts and marriage symbols.
The backs have mini 1 inch family photos from the plethora of photos the bride sent to me. Here's wishes to the couple for a glorious wedding day...

crazy, mixed up workspace

what a mess!!!
My little studio does not always look like this...
this is how it looks when I have several projects going at the same time
when I am in the throes of just creating...

when I am under the gun to get things finished...
when deadlines loom overhead...

it's funny I can find anything in this clutter...but...
I know where everything is when it's like this...

but when this phase is over and once again it's all neat and tidy...
I'll have put to bed this soul dwelling series of art I am working on...

and Peyton says...take a nap already would you?

a little morphing around....

art is a healing thing...

art is a healing thing...at least it is for me...it is the space between reality and art that is the most comfortable for me to sit in. The more my mind goes to that zone...the more I create, the more I create, the more I heal...and the easier it is...

And it is ironic...that there is a space between sadness and joyfulness...at one end of the spectrum there are things we can do nothing about...at the other we must make sure our hands are open to grasp at it as it passes by.
I have been making altered photo art for my exhibit for awhile now. It has been named 'Soul Dwellings' for months. It is about the journey that each of makes, where we are going, and where we end up... I had photographed my Dad and Mom's hands to be part of my journey... and it's ironic is all...that art imitates life...or is it the other way around...
You can see it all here: soul dwellings

we are really going to miss you...

Richard Compton

March 2, 1938 - August 11, 2007

soul washing...

It's healing for me to take off for the beach to clear the pebbles out of my brain...

The sea air, the textured sand beneath my feet, the light playing on the waves, all shift me into a different state of mind. Sometimes I need that...

As I walked down the beach I checked out the sand art at my feet...



created by Mother Nature...

I didn't move a thing...honest


Mother Nature has a sense of humor...


She washed out my soul....

and I headed home...

mega news

This week Sarah Fishburn's and my article on "In This House" and the "Skylines and Skyscrapers" swap came out in Astarte's Mega-Zine. This publication comes out of Australia and is really cool. Three of my mini skyline houses and four of Sarah's houses from this swap appear on the front cover of this issue.

Go to www.go-make-art.com and look for the interview link in the blue box on the right side of the page to hear our half hour audio interview that we did with Stacey Apeitos, editor and publisher of Go Make Art. You can also download a free copy of issue #1 while you are at the web site, but if you subscribe you can get our project article in issue #3.