Symbiosis 2013, things connected

This new sculpture is another conglomerate of elements that are states of symbiosis in nature. Nature being that state or politics between living things in the wilderness that i see and witness. Elements being the flora and fauna that exists and only exist because of one or the other elements in the chain of nature. Today i was doing a little bit of research on a few rivers systems, one being the North Umpqua in Oregon. My friend Melinda who I've been doing some woodworking for highly suggested that I make time to go and experience this watershed since it has such an incredible level of biodiversity and wild state that seems so untouched still and very accessible. After a quick search on the web it looks like its on my visit list for 2014 after Paris and of course it has great fly fishing opportunities. The small cabinet is veneered in Redwood Burl and was a cigar box that my friend Bruce gave me after a camping trip, while the dragon fly inside came off the radiator of my truck when i was on my way home from studying split cane rod building with Chris Raine in Dunsmuir in June.

Endo-Biotic Symbiosis

Ive been super busy since the new year in the studio. New sculptures that seemed to be languishing along on work tables suddenly became clear in how they were to procede. Newly finished is a sculpture Endo-Biotic Symbiosis. the outer sides are styrene forms taken off of tree bark that are monted and hinged to panels. Open sculpture is a narative about the inner dependency that flora and fuana has in the wilderness. The sculptures slip cover is quarter sawn sycamore with a deciduous tree image cut out relating to the trees in the sculpture.

Multiple Construct 1-5

After returning from my two and half week adventure into the high country, in the studio i feel very inspired to be immersed in all the projects. Without a stutter, like i hadn't been away, I went straight to work mounting the gun blued hinges. after a quick finish sanding and layout of the parts in there right sequence i began epoxying them onto each leaf of each book sculpture. Using 5 minute epoxy helps with to keep the process going at a reasonable pace. after each of the 5 pieces were assembled i could allow them to cure and then edge sand each to an edge square. next, tomorrow i'll head to the plastic shop to buy the .030 sheet styrene and start annoying Bill to gain access to the vacuform machine and produce the 10 reliefs for the outside pages of the 5 unit multiple.

New Drawing 6-2-2012

here is a new drawing i finished today.

Poly-Hedron Cabinets

I put a final coat of spar on both of the PolyHedron cabinet a few days ago and decided it would be a good idea to take some pictures of them before starting to make the leather closer straps for the doors. I took some close up images of the interior tree elements with the appendages of paper hedrons and legoscapes.

Mappa burl cabinet with trout images for interior Tree Trout.

Sapele veneer cabinet with Lego condo scape for the interior.

Open Hedronscape

During the past drawings i discovered the cut out shape in the hedron shapes that were integrated in the drawing.
similar to a lack of order but not chaos. the negative element opened a link in my though to helix imagery in science.
I began to build some elements for a few new landscapes and thought to create this helix hedron shape in a dimensional form with my polyhedrons.
I chose the subject matter of the trout details that are photographed wile hiking the rivers, and on the opposite side of the prints are the images of the topographic maps defining where i was with the trout.
Then i transfer the template for the pattern and then cut out the hedron and glue it together.

Hedron-scape drawings

With scraps from the photos.
Shapes used for Polyhedrons.
Shape forms which are elements of the cabinet sculptures.
Saved or added, left over arbitrary parts.
These recent drawings, formations between the drawn drawn and photo.
Fragments of images from treks in the wilderness.
The incorporation of watercolor to define the landscape.
The high sierra rock and its own geometry in striation and fracturing line.
Contours in a map defined by the rock.
Waterways defined by the topography.
Flora and fauna defined by the landscape.
The Landscape as elements.
Each linked and defined by one another.