ive had this grand idea brewing for some time now about how to apply my own contemporary spin on the Lord’s Supper. so….what you see here is my solution on progress. i have 12 porcelain chairs and one bronze that will be installed together on a very small narrow table. you’ll see….
here are 6 of my recent press-mold porcelain doilies I’ve been so determined to make happen. with many mishaps involving cracks and shattering…I finally developed a technique that lets me put these beauties on the wall.
by far mary's most famous work to date. accepted into multiple well-known exhibitions. so beautiful.
"extension of a womans self." installation of slip cast crocheted houses;homes. {proud to own one of these!}
organizing imaginary space (in progress)
this is merely a "sketch" by mary for a larger more complete project. beautiful nonetheless.
crocheted brick wall (growing project)
chair made of movie tickets (current work in process)
meet my good friend mary. this girl is incredible. currently working on her masters at virginia commonwealth, she works primarily with clay and fibers {sometimes simultaneously}.
i have fallen in love with this process of dipping anything that burns into slip (wet clay) and then firing it out. Here is my latest concoction. quite beautiful just how they are. if these turn out half as beautiful as i anticipate, you should look forward to seeing them in my soon to be etsy shop!
a few weeks ago, I woke up at 3 in the morning with an undying urge to tie strings into knots simulating the appearance of a doilie. well…needless to say, i got out of bed and did it. here is the result…but not the end product. I plan to dip these in paper clay and fire them in a kiln. the strings will burn out leaving a delicate hollow porcelain doilie.
jonathan thought that making a coffee cup out of bronze was a much better idea than a cassette tape. i disagreed, but made him a coffee cup anyway and surprised him for christmas.
this is a starbucks cup cast in bronze. it weighs around 15 pounds.
here is a clay remnant of my portrait bust. i couldnt bring myself to simply trash my face along with the rest of the clay that it took to make myself.
a bust of myself. now what to do with it?
a gift for jonathan.
he recently attended a performance (if you will) by michigan-based pastor, rob bell called “drops like stars”. at the end of the night, they passed out bars of soap encouraging individuals to essentially create a work of art with the soap.
so for christmas, i carved jonathan a tiny olive branch out of the soap he received, loaded with christian symbolism. the scroll beside it explains some of the connotations often sited with the branch.
a recent sculpture that I made that was on display at the university of arkansas campus. these are cast wax needles with nylon rope acting as the thread. there were four in total, two of which are still on display until the end of this week. the meaning is simply a literal translation of the connection that i feel with nature when sewing something by hand. i was pretty satisfied with the end product, besides the fact that the wax was softened by the heat of the sun, it still worked out.
