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“Life in Plastic, it’s Fantastic.”
Anne Cubberly and her sculpture, made from re-purposed food and beverage containers, will follow the Blue Banner in the 26th annual Parade the Circle. The parade will begin at noon on June 13, 2015, in front of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Width: 4 inches (10 cm)
Height: 3 inches (7-1/2 cm)
Thickness: 1-1/8 inch (2-3/4 cm)
150 sheets or 300 pages counting front & back
This book is made from 20 lb. blank pastel goldenrod paper and green waxed cotton thread, with coptic stitch binding on the spine. The cover is made from a recycled gift bag and chipboard (the inside cover is a different section of the same gift bag). The closure is made from green waxed cotton thread and a gold glass crow bead. The cotton thread used for the binding was waxed with beeswax.
This bowl is turned from a piece of aged/weathered Fir driftwood found on Camano Island. The piece of wood was extremely heavy, and saturated with sap. It has a very unique burled grain pattern.
April 2018
Drumbo, ON
Journal:
My challenge was to build a windvane out of found parts and the purpose of the photo was to document the product.
Woven copper and steel. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 33"x 41"x 2".
4¼"w x 5½"h x ⅜" thick
40 sheets or 80 pages counting front & back
made from cardboard, white copier paper, yarn for binding and duct tape
the plans for this project are available here
I knew that the head was going to be heavy, and I knew I had to figure out how to attach the head (and the neck, which is about two feet long) to the body of the bear. There was an old house being rehabbed down the street. And I had been scoping out their construction dumpster. When I finally went down there to ask if I could have their scrap lumber, the dumpster had been hauled off. The guy had just one board. It was that white board you see here. It was bigger than a regular 2" by 4". When I got home, I measured it and realized it was an old-timey 2" by 4", not a modern 3 1/2" by 1 1/2" inch 2" by 4". I'd always thought that they cut-down on the size because they were cheap, but when I started working with this board, I realized that the modern dimensions are more practical. The big board proved perfect to make a neck-bone for my bear, however, or spine, or whatever it is.
I trimmed it at the top so it would fit in to the slot between the two boards that make the head profile.
Early on I figured out that I would have to drill holes in the neck and insert carriage bolts. The head could not be nailed to the body.
A kind of iconic view of the bear, in daytime (today, actually). If you don't know what that pylon-looking thing on the left is, please don't ask. It supposed to be like an iceberg, or part of an iceflow, or something. Perhaps with a few more jumbled about, you will get the picture. His name is Pedro, btw, aka Rough & Ready.
The Natchez Trace is an historic parkway that meanders from the Mississippi Delta to Nashville, Tennessee. A small road managed by the US Park Service, the Natchez Trace is quiet and beautiful, traveled primarily by tourists, and is an excellent and popular route with bicyclists.
This June, I had the amazing opportunity to travel the Natchez Trace on my bicycle, as part of an ongoing journey around the US and beyond. As we travel, I'm collecting small reminders of the areas we pass through, and incorporating them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. (Yes, I'm carrying a portable studio!)
These earrings are made of 100% eco-friendly sterling silver, and feature bits of the Natchez Trace map we used, sealed with shellac.
Earrings hang approx. 1.5" long.
Part of the Path Less Pedaled project - www.pathlesspedaled.com
Woven copper, found objects, steel. Pattern and color are achieved with a combination of chemical patinas, tinted lacquers and acrylic paint. 2010. 19"x15"x2".
Available as a giclee print. Limited edition of 25. 15"x19" printed on hahnemuhle 100% rag paper with archival pigmented inks
Materials our instructor brought to a continuing education course I took at Emily Carr University of Art & Design - "Environmental Installation: Working with Nature."
There was a lot to choose from, but I made the mistake of not going through the stuff early on when everyone else did.
This guy, this guy is dumb as a pile of sawdust. He looks for paint drops to walk-in. He whines, he mewls, he pukes, he scratches. He likes me. He has no earthly redeeming social value.
All his names end in "head" or "hole."
Half-a-joke, half-serious. The head was so heavy, and threading the twin needles of the slot at the breastplate and the neckbone in the neck was so exhausting that I had to stop mid-stream and take a picture. I took the head off today and it about broke me. Note that the side of the body panels has not be filled out. Note also that the polar bear has no butt.