Landscape, underground

20 x 20

Chained

12x 12
Black stained glass scraps, electric blue glass from another glass artist's scraps, faux gold chain
gold foil, silver foil.

Blue Velvet

"That's a human ear all right"

I tried new things. Abalone shell and silver gilded blue windshield glass, mirror bits, sea glass, seed pearls on silver pigment painted textured wood12" x 12"

Parallel Lines

I've done a bunch of new work, but only feel like posting this one right now.

I titled this before watching Blondie's New York, which is about the making of the titular album.

Topography of a feeling

Rusted chain and windshield glass with tiny, clear glass spheres (they are not beads; no holes). Chain and spheres were given to me by S. White. Windshield glass backed with gold and silver foil. Three shades of gold pigment, two of silver. On found wood textured with wax.

Wilted Rose City

Update to post. I finally titled the piece. Brought to you by the "progress" on Division Street. Seriously, people no one, and I mean NO ONE calls it "D-Street". Stop trying to make it happen. The old Oregon theatre is still there, and while I am not a patron, I may give them a donation to stay in the neighborhood.

I saw a bumper sticker yesterday, which succinctly put my feelings to words. It's been so long since a bumper sticker did anything but give me secondhand embarrassment: Fred & Toody, NOT Fred & Carrie. Amen.


Center: red glass rose from broken cocktail ring. Blue wind shield glass, cabochons. Below, veins of copper pigment painted glass with layers of (mikimoto seed & rice pearls) pearls, pre-ban red coral, tiny shells, crystals. Other glass backed in silver, gold, copper foil.

It's pretty. It also is in the private collection of a lovely couple in California (previously of PDX).
I have more pictures, but I promised I would put this up for someone to see. [per request] Mostly strangers look at my pictures, which is lovely.

"These Streets Will Never Look The Same"

More geometric stylings in a cool color palette.
Has a certain musicality and reminds me of a cityscape without being representational or on purpose. Glass scraps from Bullseye: iridescent, fused, slumped. I don't cut the glass, it is used as found, these are the things that would be thrown away or recycled.

Gilded with silver foil on silver gilded board. 12" x 12".. I liked the straight/almost straight lines and the colors: from electric blue to deep purple to cobalt, to green, to sky blue marbled in white, like a cut of sky.I wish I could capture the colors better-- for example, the rectangle above the golden one is a spectacular deep blue-green, but it looks black, no matter how I photograph it.

"Come Undone"

The main color in this piece is copper, but it looks gold in photos. Abstract with heavy black shapes. My lovely friend gifted me with a box of her scraps from Bullseye Glass classes, and we magpied some from the BEG building, after the class we took together in December. 

The jumping off point was the milky glass with green iridescent and pink through out, and black lines. Bits of vintage jewelry, bus shelter glass, milk glass,  beads, buttons. A really great cross with green/red/amber rhinestones weights the bottom/side. This collage brings back music from the 80s for me, both the culture's experience, and my own personal favorites. On wood. 12" x 12", like an LP.

detail:

Geometry.

Simple intensity: Textured red and orange glass scraps from Bullseye Glass on gold pigment treated  distressed found wood.

from a new series in a new direction. I am not sure I should even have posted it, but I've been up all night working on art, and this one was ready to be photographed.

I should take another photo. The pigment and acrylic gel have reacted and made an interesting blue aura around the glass, which you can see the beginnings of in this photo. It's more obvious and gives the piece really great depth.