Bits & Pieces: August 2008

August 7, 2008

SEABA Art Hop in Burlington, Vermont on September 5th & 6th - The Little State of Vermont's BIG visual Arts Festival and Celebration!

An official Juror's Selection at the SEABA Art Hop Juried Show:

STEELING A WINTER'S NIGHT - From the Vermont Place Settings Series - Pique Assiette and Mixed Media Mosaic Landscape (direct method) created from salvaged boken ceramic pieces, hand cut dishware, scrap stained glass, rescued stainless steel flatware knife handle and soup spoon, discarded broken drinking glass with iridiscent coating; framed in salvaged aluminum channel and scrap wood molding

CHLOROPHYLIA - A Green Piece (Shown here as a Work In Progress)
Pique Assiette, Tempered Glass and Mixed Media Mosaic Vessel (direct method, glass on glass) created from recycled slumped glass; tempered glass from car windshield salvaged at auto wrecking yard; reclaimed vintage dishware, rescued broken antique china with 22K gold trim; scrap stained glass; found vintage jewelry brooch; freshwater pearls; iridized glass paint; sanded and non-sanded grout

THIS ART IS TRASH!

When I'm not delving into dumpsters or scavenging around salvage yards, I create Mixed-Media Mosaic Art using primarily recycled, salvaged and reclaimed materials — and I love the entire process. The art and craft of making mosaics is totally engrossing to me because it involves the heart in the passion of creation, the head in fitting together all the elements of the puzzle, and the hands in fine craftsmanship. For me, art is both interaction and expression; an exploration of discovery that perfectly weds the mind, the soul and the body in an ongoing, thought-provoking, and always entertaining, dialog...with myself, with the world around me — and with ALL the stuff, both physical and metaphysical, of life — so this blog is simply an outlet for me to share a dose of that dialog and a measure of my musings as I look at, and work with, all the bits and pieces that come my way in life!

The Story of Stuff

Stuff...? Yeah, we got LOTS of that! In fact, we're just about stuffed with stuff and this imaginative, informative and cleverly told little on-line tale tells it like it is so that the problem with stuff becomes clear to everybody. It also exlains how easy it is for each one of us to solve our problems with stuff in terms that are so simple and straightforward, you will wonder why you haven't been taking care of stuff already. To watch this short video clip, click on the The Story of Stuff in the Favorite Links section above. And it you like it, pass it on!

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ALOHA!

Customized mosaic for my favorite coffee growers at Blair Estate where growing coffee is an art and a lifestyle. Keeping to their organic committment, they use sheep as lawn mowers...once, during a livestock emergency, they actually made me MILK a sheep. Check out their chocolate covered macadamia nuts! Everyone on the mainland begs me to bring them some of these treats — and being the chocolate addict that I am, if I don't pack them away in my suitcase I end up eating them all on the plane. Click on the Coffee Times link in Galleries & Venues above to try some for yourself and take an on-line tour of this unique organic coffee plantation on the island of Kauai.

TRASH IS TREASURE IN PARADISE

Kaua'i Recyling for the Arts is a non-profit art and educational organization created by a group of local Kaua’i artists, educators, business owners and environmentalists. The goals of the collective are to provide art, education and environmental awareness to residents and visitors to the island of Kauai. The collective maintains a studio in Lihue with furnaces fueled by Bio-Diesel where glass bottles diverted from the landfill are used to create art of all kinds. They also offer classes, demonstrations of hot glass work and have a small onsite gallery. It's located between the airport and the dump, so it's definitely one of my favorite places to hang out and so convenient to tourists if you happen to be visiting the island! You can get more info about this worthy organization by clicking on the link in Galleries & Venues above.

August 7, 2008

SEABA Art Hop in Burlington, Vermont on September 5th & 6th - The Little State of Vermont's BIG visual Arts Festival and Celebration!

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