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"

Archive: Mermaid Tiara

This was a latter day addition to the collection. The shell, with rocks embedded, was from the time I lived on Molokai. Blue windshield glass, gilded with silver foil, antique coral strands, beads and carved flowers, pearls, both real and vintage,  on a plastic headband. The original tiaras are MIA, but I will be locating them, and the other missing items, posting them when I can. This is terrifically wearable!

Archive: Mermaid Scallop Shell Sceptor

The starfish one is more spectacular, but this is nice too. Iron bar, painted with silver pigment and epoxied on to shell. Shell is covered in shell buttons, shells, pearls and crystals. needs a little minor clean up, being stored for a decade or so!