rusty chain and lock on cement

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FOUND ITEM: twisted red vines....

Street Sense Media artist and vendor Saul Aroha Nui Tea and his puppet characters from the Hell's Bottom Congress of Puppets folk opera.

Read more at www.StreetSenseMedia.org

This dog and pup squeezed out of the cavity between the newly installed uPVC window frame and the wall.

They were born entirely by happy chance, and I added the map pin eyes.

Over the intervening 20 years or so they turned from Yellow Labrador to Red Setter, with the help of several hundred British Pounds worth of nicotine.

Makes me glad once again that I stopped the weed in 2000!

Something else from my chuck-out for the decorators, but these were for the bin not the gallery.

Now..if my name was Damien Hirst......

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One of my all time personal favorites :-) This was made after I got out of the hospital last year after the heart attack. I know that everyone there meant to be kind, but it got to be wearisome to be told over and over how 'young' and 'great' I looked.... when this was how I was feeling inside lol!

It also occurs to me that this represents how I feel all the time! It can be difficult even to convince my doctors to take me seriously since to them I 'don't look sick'! :-)

Just working on better shots/different angles etc...

mixed media assemblage

why'd someone throw us away? we were painted. we are neat.

Street Sense Media artist and vendor Saul Aroha Nui Tea and his puppet characters from the Hell's Bottom Congress of Puppets folk opera.

Read more at www.StreetSenseMedia.org

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on the streets of SAN FRANCISCO

why'd someone throw us away? we were painted. we are neat.

for my Sculpture I class

installation at RAW:Gallery, Winnipeg; April 1-17, 2011

31 inches high **SOLD**

This un-puffed puffer fish is handmade from recycled, repurposed objects. It is attached to a base, and measures, with the base approximately 16" tall. The fish alone measures approximately 10" x 6".

This would look great in a grouping with some of the other recycled, found object fish offered here!

It is $75.

Hiding in a tree in the woods

This might be Anubis kissing Nefertiti. Bike and motorbike parts. By Anhtony Wilson www.sculpturemad.com

“Coca-Cola,” 10/15/10

Its what we're doing now, piper's fishdog

rosemary + resin within silver frames, 2009

Artificial roast

One of the few masks I've produced recently, but another great personal favorite. It was part of a local collaborative festival between artists and playwrights...we were given a play to read then asked to produce a piece related to or inspired by the work. The play centered on generational relationships, and one of the key characters is 'Nana', a severely depressed elderly woman.

I started to recall my own grandmothers as they aged... and began to wonder if at a certain point we become not much more than a repository of faded memories.

Sigh. Even with the newer camera, it's very difficult to get proper photos of the masks. I'm willing to admit this calls for a professional, with better equipment than I have access to. But being the typical struggling artist, it may be a long while before I can hire one :-)

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Reclaimed cedar shake art by Patrick Plummer.

Whatzit? Anyone know?

Welded scrap steel, granite fragment

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on the streets of SAN FRANCISCO

Molly Hewitt's installation of sculptures and found objects on the Ray Yoshida shelves at the Roger Brown Study Collection.

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The back of "Mrs. Lackey" Shrine. Text is from an etiquette book from 1943.

In 2017, I followed an internet class with the American artist, Carla Sonheim. We had to follow a prompt once a day. I did not finished the year since I was takin care of my mom and my sis who were both very sick and finally died 5 weeks apart. But I manage to go up to the 256th day. Here are some of my fave prompts. Day 136: Try to create a still life or an abstract with found objects.