"The Circle of Life" a show at the Prescott Fine Arts Association.
March 9th through April 15th 2007
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| June 2006 |
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| The two pieces
"The Inescapable lightness of Being"
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"Salut Framboise"
are part of a developing series based on a
personal experience of maturity or at least of observations of
my aging and those around me. Although not necessarily focused
primarily on getting older, the act of becoming an old fart does
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"The Inescapable
Lightness of Being (Losing My Grip During The Six O'clock News)"
Now haven't you felt like
the world was going mad right in front of your eyes. Not just
crazy-mad, but stupid-mad and funny-mad and
"are-you-sure-he's-serious-mad"? Happens to me almost every
night during the news, national especially. It's like everything
that gives weight to my very being is slipping away. It's all I
can do to hang on to the overstuffed chair to keep from floating
away.
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"Salut Framboise"
Excuse my broken French. This piece
is three feet tall and made up of two sections. The lower barrel
form has the following words pressed into it; "I will not be
defined by the limitations of man or nature" The gentleman at
the top is undignifiably clothed in only a hospital dressing
gown, hence his attitude. This piece is a "Boomers Manifesto" of
sorts. We, of that age, have become accustomed to being in
charge, setting trends, being listen to and accounted to, for a
generation. We are now moving into new territory and some of the
attention is being paid more to our bladders, our penises, our
bald heads and our incontinent lower regions. We are not the sum
total of the pharmaceutical industry's latest market study, we
are not as slow witted as some of our leaders must believe we
have become, we are not attached at the butt to some rocking
chair. And we don't need an enema...yet. |
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March 2006 |
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| This series
is based on Children's Books. Simple literary ideas are a good jumping
off point for me. These are fairly straight forward images based on
fairly familiar stories or rhymes. In
April/May of 2006 these pieces were shown at the Sheryl Leonard Gallery
in Prescott, Arizona. |
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| Toto…Toto” , In all the
confusion of the great tornado, the sweeping away of Dorothy’s house,
the swirling around of everything familiar, there must have been that
few moments when Toto, Dorothy’s little dog, sat alone in front of the
whirling wind, looked up at the house flying through the Kansas air and
thought to himself…”Crap, looks like no dinner tonight.” 16in x 8in x
16in (HWL), thrown and altered, oxide patinas, cone 6, electric kiln,
wood base |
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| “The Giving Tree”. Shel
Silverstein’ book, “The Giving Tree”, deals with a difficult to explain
relationship. Volumes have been written and symposiums held that try to
posit and prove its philosophies. As an example of Art, it excels in
getting the discussions started. It is equally difficult not to discuss
it and to just accept the story as a story. Doing figurative work I am
fully aware of the difficulty in reading a story along with exploring
the form. 13in x 14in x 14in (HWL), handbuilt, paperclay, glazed, cone
6, electric kiln, wood base and background trees. |
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| “The Tortoise and the Hare”.
Aesop’s fables, a compendium of many Aesops’ wisdom, are pearls of
straight forward common sense and the teaching of life skills. But what
of the personal experiences of the characters? After all can’t you just
hear Mr. Hare saying “Whoa…how’d that happen?” 11in x 19in x 19in (HWL)
handbuilt, paperclay, oxides, underglaze chalk and glazed, cone 6,
electric kiln, wood base |
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| “Four and Twenty”. Four
and Twenty blackbirds baked in a pie… Children’s nursery rhymes are
certainly bizarre upon a more than simple reading and their meanings are
lost deep in long past cultural histories. Four and twenty black
birds,…24 birds, in one pie is a lot of birds to begin with. See, count
‘em, that’s a lot of birds. 7in H x 19in across. Thrown platter,
handbuilt birds of paperclay, glazed, cone 6 electric kiln (sold) |
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“The Story Teller”
The story teller’s trade has been
usurped by TV, video, computer games and more. Well, the message has
been better disseminated for it, but the experience of listening to the
words and letting the imagination wrap itself around the story is of a
wonder by itself. 20in x 19in x 19in (HWL). Handbuilt, paperclay,
glazed, cone 6, electric kiln |
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| "Mr. Bliss", J.R.R. Tolkien is
best known for the Hobbit series. In addition he has written a short
children's book called "Mr. Bliss" which retells the story of a
certainly peculiar man, Mr. Bliss, and his new yellow car. It also trys
to give credence to the existence of the girabbit. I personally don't
believe in girabbits so I have chose to ignore them as I do Democrats
and Republicans. (sold) |
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