Recent Work

Arting Up Valentine's Day 2010

2010-02-18T15:14:00.000-08:00

Janice gave me a stunning Valentine bouquet made of dried grasses, flowers, and plants she picked from our snowy yard. I made her a wooden valentine heart wrapped in a wire ball.

Valentine Yard Bouquet 2010

Valentine Wood and Wire Object

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"The Art Guys"

2010-01-10T14:08:00.001-08:00

I'm calling this set of objects, "The Art Guys." If you're not familiar with The Art Guys, then click here.
"Rolling Rock"Round, rollable wire sphere containing a suspended rock. Approximately 18-inches in diameter. Steel bailing wire and rock.
"Rolling Rolling Rock"Rollable wire sphere containing a suspended, full bottle of beer. Approximately 18-inches in diameter. Steel bailing wire and bottle of beer.

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Hole Hammer (#1)

2009-12-13T14:12:00.000-08:00

Present for Randi Bushman for her 25th birthday. Scrap wood, nails, steel wire, broken pottery, paint, small plastic figures, and small bells.

"ARTCITE--The Angry Sullen Years"

2009-11-27T17:45:00.000-08:00

Now on display at Artcite's annual Christmas art show/sale, “DOIN' THE LOUVRE," in Windsor, Canada.

Yard Tools

2009-11-24T16:17:00.000-08:00

Leaf Rake (Aug 09) Garden Rake (Nov 09)Old wooden handled yard tools. Leaf Rake: vine and steel wire. Garden rake: steel wire and sticks.

Ladders and Rocks

2009-11-20T14:11:00.000-08:00

ladder with 2 rocks

ladder with 3 rocks

Spurlungar

Papar

Old wooden ladders, rocks, and steel wire.
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Something #3

2009-11-16T20:58:00.000-08:00

Salvaged wood, nails, screws, and bolts; 55 inches tall on rocking chair feet. November 15, 2009.

Something #2

2009-11-07T20:10:00.000-08:00

Salvaged wood & garden hose. Nails, screws, and bolts. November 7, 2009.

12 Halloween Masks

2009-11-01T16:13:00.000-08:00

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Tags for Evil Art objects

2009-11-01T10:00:00.000-08:00

Created a special tag for each of the five new Evil Art objects. A 2x3 inch photo sewn onto a piece of rubber cut from a Halloween monster mask. View all 5 tags here.

Ensemble of new Evil Art

2009-10-30T16:17:00.000-07:00

Now on sale HERE

EVIL ART #5

2009-10-28T19:10:00.000-07:00

Body Parts Rack more here

EVIL ART #4

2009-10-26T16:32:00.000-07:00

Revenge of the Tar Pit more here

Creativity Workshop

2009-10-23T19:21:00.000-07:00

Led a two day workshop with the incredibly smart and talented folks of Olson Zaltman Associates in Pittsburgh this week. This was as good as it gets for me. This is the "goofy" picture we took at the end of the workshop.

Something

2009-10-16T21:57:00.000-07:00

Scrap wood, garden hose, bolts, nuts, wing nuts and washers.

Jasper Johns on creativity: "It's simple, you just take something and do something to it. Then you do something else to it. Pretty soon, you've got something."

Accumulated Materials

2009-10-10T19:04:00.001-07:00

Long wooden handled tools salvaged over recent months from neighborhood trash. Awaiting creative uses.

Tomato Tomahawks Go On Sale

2009-10-08T19:19:00.000-07:00

Sale here

"Toboggan Mystery"

2009-09-13T21:46:00.000-07:00

A new story from Fluxus Midwest.
And a birthday present for my sister Marilyn.

Fluxus Indian Cruciform

2009-08-09T21:12:00.000-07:00

I recently stumbled upon the discovery that two paddle balls with presses can be used to make a near perfect Fluxus Indian Cruciform. Not much is known about the Fluxus Indian Cruciform even though this symbol appears frequently in Fluxus Indian graphics.

Monument to the Coon RapidsGolf Swing

2009-08-09T20:37:00.000-07:00

Fluxus Indian Twirling Stick

2009-07-21T14:40:00.000-07:00

Fluxus Indian Twirling Stick
now on display
as part of the Windsor, Ontario,
International Fringe Festival,
July 17 - 31, 2009.

Tomato plants

2009-06-21T20:39:00.000-07:00

Nightmare Before Christmas figures

2009-06-21T17:54:00.000-07:00

Hats

2009-06-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

Hats I've made and collected.

Tools with long wooden handles

2009-06-19T13:51:00.000-07:00

Tools recently retrieved from curbside trash. Now candidates for The Stick Garden.