In vinos myseria

"Candy Says"

Asymmetrical wood with cameo, broken jewelry, beads, buttons, ephemera. Glass from cocktail glasses, bus shelters, stained glass scraps, cars, windows, bottles. Bring the disparate elements of the cast offs of a city into a cohesive other. Elevating the mundane with gold and silver foil, gold, silver and copper pigment. The yellow is the wall of my studio behind. So many pieces making an intricate, mindful collage.

I really like the silver radiant lines, and the skull bead, which I found in the gutter near my workplace.

 For some damned reason,  I cannot get this image to post right side up, even if I save it upside down. ah well, dig that crazy detail!

Shining

small fetish boxes with glass items: a glass skull I dug up in SE industrial Portland, under the Hawthorne bridge, gilded in silver in a box lined in '30s silk velvet and a squirrel mandible w/gold pigment painted heart in a simple black box. I posted them a few years back, and I will dig out the ones I never photographed, because they make a great series.

For awhile, I had this set of unpainted pine dolls. They were spooky on their own, but I recalled the antiqued metal angels in cemeteries, and painted them. In a simple black box with gold hinges attached.

I am beginning to branch away from 2-d glass only art more aggressively, but my heart is, as Blondie said, of glass.

"I'm So Glad That You're Gone" (squirrel bones/glass heart in box) 

Hawthorne Skull (skull gilded with silver in velvet lined box)

The Shining: wooden dolls, treated with patina, in black box. 

Mardi Gras

New box piece. The reaction to my use of orange in an earlier piece lead me to try the same colors in a cigar box, with Mardi Gras on the mind. Lots of found jewelry/beads/buttons give it the controlled chaos I enjoy so very much.

almost (finished)

This piece was called "almost" because it was almost there, but not quite. I did not want the background to be silver or gold, pigment or foil. I've been crazy about this antiquing paint, and I think the dark, juxtaposed with the monochromatic light, is hot.

http://ceciliacannon.blogspot.com/2014/01/almost.html (original)

Boulevard of Broken Glass

There are tons of apartments cropping up like mushrooms on my street. The silver lining is the large amount of free wood, provided you don't mind odd sizes.

I was inspired to start making little buildings, and a village started to form: a house of pearls, both freshwater and vintage, experiments with patina paint, and a horseshoe I found on an afternoon with my work cohort; a silver glass house made of bus shelter glass gilded in silver, a house with bricks of copper foiled glass and a key; a landscape-on-house.

this will be a continuing series. It's the antithesis of those horrid little holiday villages people put under their Christmas trees. 3-D, but only front sides are detailed. Sides are painted or gilded. Sizes vary: 3"-5" x 6"-10"

mango pit beach

I've been producing a lot of new work lately, and have been slow to document it. 

When I lived in Hawaii, on Oahu, there was a beach south of Kailua, around a bend, surrounded with mango trees. It was an isolated, sparsely populated, if at all, local beach, and I spent some delicious afternoons under an umbrella in the sand. Here, in another imageistic piece, I attempt to capture the feeling of the beach I always thought of as "mango pit beach". I left the fruit stones out of the piece.

Green bottle glass, sea glass gilded in gold foil, blue windshield glass, pieces of Japanese fishing floats, stained glass scraps, mirror pieces, sea glass gilded in silver on found wood, painted with gold pigment. Hawaiian seashell.

35 x 35"

STAR

Variegated foil, tin, glass, gilded glass on wood.

Sea Urchin (mermaid piece)

What's with the mermaids, anyway? Besides the belief that I am one, my favorite story growing up was Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid". No, not the Disney-fied happily after after nonsense, with a wedding and singing crabs, but the dark allegory of his forbidden love for Edvard Collin.

The one where the heroine has the choice: kill her beloved's beloved, and she will be a mortal. Instead, she throws the knife into the sea, her sacrifice making her a daughter of the air. Sacrifice is true love, and my idea of romance.
Sea glass from Hawaii, antique red coral from a broken necklace,windshield glass and a perfect sea urchin.