Wearable Weaponry
I’d often admired those great honking wooden earrings that seemed they would gauge a big hole in your ears with a wooden stick that you pushed through your earlobe to attach the two parts making it look sculpturally-fantastic and painful all at once. I’d also often wondered how they’d look in metal, being a metal-head [...]
Glorious Desolation
Photographs by Hans Hansen. The aftermath of western occupation and expansion . .
I Am Fishing for God
using my heart as bait. It is just before dawn, the slightest hint of pink bleeds into the night sky. I use my pen knife to cut the hole in my chest, reaching behind the pocket of my shirt. What a tough muscle to pull the hook through. The heart is astonished to be in [...]
Gold Blooming
Here are a few photos of the results of making-time in my cozy winter workshop . . [ See Keum-bo cutouts, previous post . . ]
To Live
I have drunk fully of the moment, I have never repented, and I have never desired something else. – Osho
Covet + Collect
All right all right, twist my arm, I admit it : I covet and collect handmade functional ceramics with a PASSION. I see it, I feel it, I love it, I buy it. Later I get a little chuckle of glee and a sparkle of wonder whenever I drink my coffee or tea or eat [...]
Silver and Charcoal
Made these Seed Posts as a custom request for a client with bright silver in the centre instead of gold. Always a fan of looseness and flow in life as in the oxidation process, I don’t mind some poetic license in the way the patina gets a little free rein, giving the textured concave surface [...]
Play Shape Make
Last night fusing gold to silver at my bench I had the most delicious feeling of being in kindergarten or first grade. Keum-bo can be detailed, almost tedious work. And yet it isn’t quite repetitive; to reach every little nook, corner and hidden crevice of a tiny textural landscape it takes a certain sensitivity and [...]
Morning Prayer
English muffin + lemon banana smoothie + fried egg with chili adobo sauce + spicy ginger mate = Goodness
Love for Certain Work
Traveling is as refreshing for some as staying home is for others. Solitude in a mountain place fills with companionship for this one, dead-weariness for that one. This person loves being in charge of the working of a community. This one loves the ways that heated iron can be shaped with a hammer. Each has [...]
