I have just recently completed a handful of new work from two different series of work.
The first couple of works are from the Barrel series and are entitled "Production Level 1" and Production Level 2". Each contain a set of seven mold blown barrel shapes with hand blown glass inserts and fabricated float glass lids. The number of the barrels relate to the number of available productive days in a week and address the realistic oscillation in the quality and completeness of effective effort. The second set of works are related to my current PhD research on shipping containers. This work is from a new series entitled the Container Series. These works both highlight the historical utilization of glass as a container as well as make transparent the impact of the normally obscured use of the modern shipping container. My hope is that each of these works lead to inquiries into the contents of containers, their relationship to their destination and origin and the necessity vs. the ability to utilize our modern globalized network of shipping. For instance, the work The Full Extent, contains a form that is at the full linear capacity of what the interior void can accommodate. The work is a reflection upon my own personal experience of using a shipping container to move between countries and at the question of whether I employed its use to its fullest advantage and whether its contents were all that I required in making the transition.
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I was recently contacted by Michael Janis. He informed me that he was working on the Washington Glass School's "Artist to Watch" section of their website. He said that he wanted to do a small section about me. Humbly and happily, I quickly agreed. Thank you Michael! Check out the resulting post here. It has been a busy time here in Canberra since returning from the States last month. I am mainly focused on my PhD but am also taking on some small projects to afford the decadency of academia. In the mix of all of this, there is always some random, surprising and wonderful happenings... Here are some developing works from my research: Here is a presentation platter that I created for the Australian Culinary Team (check them out here): Here is a lovely little project that I completed for a fantastic man...the author Bryce Courtenay: And, as you do in such a tight knit community, an Italian Maestro came down under. Here he is with an Australian Maestro:
I have just returned to Australia from the GAS conference in Toledo. It was a fantastic event. I couldn't be happier!!
Check out what Andrew Page says about the event here. Aside from the conference ending, my 7.5 years on the GAS Board and my 2yr. term as the President has also come to a close. It was a hard job, but one worth doing in order to keep a community coming together. Here is a photo of me getting to present Joel Philip Myers with his Lifetime Achievement Award and an image of me... Many hands are busy preparing for the GAS conference here in Toledo. Even the Analog Zamboni's are out and about at the Huntington Center in preparation for the Closing Night Party!!!
This week "Alphabet!" opened at CraftACT here in Canberra. For this show, twenty six artists who use glass were assigned a letter and asked to make a piece that reflected themselves and the letter. I was given the letter "X". The image above is my resulting piece called "X Ray: Exposure 1" (25cm h x 13cm w x 15cm d).
My aim for this "X Ray" was to make a piece that looks at revealing an everyday man's internal view of himself. I ask that if you are in Canberra to check out the other impressive letters/artists in this show. Unfortunately for the lovers of individual letters, I have been told that the entire show has been purchased by Canberra Museum and Gallery!! This is fantastic news for the artists, the work, the comprehensiveness of letterkind! Recently, I was contacted by a student from Mimar Sinan Fine Art University in Istanbul asking whether I had a video about my working process. I don't. So I made a little quick one. Check it out here if you like.
This summer, besides attending the GAS conference in Toledo, I will be teaching at Pilchuck July 2012 during their fourth session!
Please check it out and sign up if you can! Pursuant to my PhD thesis, I am currently working to get some sketches off the page and into form. I am working in a couple different directions to stagger the stops and starts of making and to circumvent ideas of transfer. One of the directions is in pursuit of creating little glass barrels (9"h x 6"dia). Each barrel can reveal the level of their interior contents. These works are allowing me to work on the the concepts of what is needed, supplied and used. Here are some images: As well as the Barrels, I am working on some Containers. the Containers are moving in two different directions, but each look to address the ability to affect and connect the destination and origins that they service. The first direction is making these forms out of glass. I am working towards making hollow transparent glass container forms to hold/provide constructed scenes of their origin/destination. I have currently finalized the making of the glass exteriors. Here are process shots of these works thus far: The second direction is to create larger steel containers to stack, stand on end and illustrate upon to explore the concept of their relationship to the health and development of the places they service and float between. Here is the developments so far:
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