Mobiles

Making mobiles is like chasing rainbows. Always changing, they are magical as they create flowing stories from the parts used to make them: found and re-purposed objects, beads, sculpted figures in paper clay and fired clay with fish line and wire.  They move, tease our static perceptions: artist, viewer, together/apart, never the same.

Arc of Time, front view, mixed media found, re-purposed objects and cicadas, 45x48 “, 2020

Arc of Time, front view, mixed media found, re-purposed objects and cicadas, 45x48 “, 2020

Arc of Time, back view, mixed media found, re-purposed objects and cicadas, 45x48 “, 2020

Arc of Time, back view, mixed media found, re-purposed objects and cicadas, 45x48 “, 2020

Gimme Shelter: Outside and Inside, 2017

Gimme Shelter: Outside and Inside, 2017

Inside it's warm, there's a basket with plenty.  There are blankets and cuddles; Santa comes regularly.  It's home, Home, HOME.

Outside it's cold or way too hot and hard and scary. Dirty.  Home—less.  Looked through, if at all.  Forgotten.

Death comes wherever we are.   Inside & Outside WE are EQUAL.

Look What Fell Through My Fingers, 2017-18, Mixed media with poem strips

Look What Fell Through My Fingers, 2017-18, Mixed media with poem strips

A wish-me-well swim-away fish//A lock miss-ing the key, but//with a heart for a start//a snake above the scene//with a wither-ing gleam and a hiss//insists lick the imposs-ible//lolli-pop whistle clean.

 

 

 

 

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Color Lines- Black and White and Brown and.... Mixed media, 2018

Humans make a big deal about separating each other according to color lines.  Nature doesn't care.

My first Stabile in mixed media, When Darkness Falls, Zombies Call, with my “plugged in” sonnet, 14” wide x 16”tall, x 16” deep, 2018/19

My first Stabile in mixed media, When Darkness Falls, Zombies Call, with my “plugged in” sonnet, 14” wide x 16”tall, x 16” deep, 2018/19

Detail of flying Zombie woman in painted paper clay with beading details

Detail of flying Zombie woman in painted paper clay with beading details

Back view of Zombie woman and her lethal high heels!

Back view of Zombie woman and her lethal high heels!

Detail of cat and mouse in painted paper clay and mixed media. The cat is sculpted onto the lamp.

Detail of cat and mouse in painted paper clay and mixed media. The cat is sculpted onto the lamp.

When Darkness Falls, Zombies Call