It's been a minute.

Over 6 years since I sat at the bench and actually fabricated anything. It feels good, like coming home again. I’ve been practicing the art of manipulating the texture of metal by depleting the copper in coin silver, and then painting the fine silver on top with the torch.Teaching this technique in a class in a few weeks. I’m a bit nervous: I haven’t taught anything in a while, and TBH, the last time didn’t go so well.So far, I’ve annealed the metal 12 times. I want to have the students get feel of annealing, so, I’ll leave the last 2 or 3 anneals for them. Then, we’ll start melting the fine silver on top, and see what the flame gives up. Bon Courage!

So Many Artists

I’ve been trying some mixed media work inspired by my new space. Feathers keep finding me, falling down and blowing into my front doorway along with leaves and dried oleander flowers. I chopped up some pastels from student drawings and made some collages and put them in a pop up show here in Las Cruces. Opening night, nothing but artists; over 60 of us in the gallery space. The curator said the show sold over 8K$. I didn’t know the local artists had that much $. None of my stuff sold, oh well. At least I got to meet a lot of artists.

them changes

I moved to beautiful Las Cruces, in the almost borderlands. It’s a big change from Denver. There are palm trees here (to me, very exotic). Hot in the summer, but not ass biting cold in the winter. Still debating the MFA thing; I’m just not sure I want to work that hard. The arts community is great. I’ve been invited to join a co-op in Mesilla (the old part of town). Pretty sure this is happening.

What's Next?

I really have no idea what’s next. I just spent 6 years getting my BFA. Now, what should I do? Couch settin’ is a desirable option, but not the best I’m sure.

The Dustpan

I’m doing an hour demo of Keumboo for CoMa this Sat. From 12-1 at MSUD. There are some interesting artists and techniques being .