We’re almost there. I used up some small pieces and scrap to make this piece. I’m optimistic for a much better 2021 than this year has been.

Reaching for the Future (13″ x 16″)

This seems like a good time to experiment. A few years ago I took a workshop where we started with a simple idea and built on it to make a series of related piece from simple to more complex. I decided to try this again and came up with this final product. While it is titled “Indecision”, I think of it more as a transition from one piece to the next.

Indecision

Every time I look through the Bullseye Graffiti or Glasscadia glass, I see creatures trying to emerge.
Here’s another new piece that was brought to life in the past month.

It’s Lunch Time

Some times when I’m looking through the Bullseye graffiti and glasscadia glass at Carolina Stained Glass, I see a vision of a creature that wants to emerge from the pattern in the glass. To see what I mean, check out my Glasscadia art in the Menu. Bullseye Glass is now holding a contest with their graffiti glass to make something interesting. To advertise the contest, they used my piece called, “Mutant Boar”. Here is another piece I just finished with a small piece of the graffiti glass I had. It’s “A Whale of a Whale.”

A Whale of a whale

I miss not seeing friends in person, traveling, or even working in our local member gallery. In the mean time, I have been having fun creating glass art. Here’s one piece I recently finished. We are rehanging our gallery in Durham this week, and we will have a virtual show at www.5pointsgallery.com and in gallery tours by appointment.

Sahara Dust Sunset

I love working in my garage studio, but it’s getting depressing not being with friends.
The internet will only go so far. Here is my latest artwork about the virus. I used a lot of left over vitrigraph murrini I made at various times.

Corona

I spent a lot of time (maybe too much!) looking at all those Bullseye Glasscadia pieces of glass I purchased. This is what has emerged.

Mutant Boar

Sheepish

Red Bird

Here is another art work from my trip to Thailand. One early morning the concierge at our hotel gave me a map of the art works (mostly graffiti) within a few blocks of the hotel. So, I walked around, and my favorite area was carved graffiti on a long concrete wall that curved along a street near the hotel.

Bangkok woman graffiti

I recently returned from an amazing trip to SE Asia. In Bangkok we visited the Jim Thompson house/museum. He was one of the most famous Americans in Thailand and was responsible for reviving the silk industry there in the 1950-60s. Check out Jim Thompson -designer at Wikipedia. He led a very interesting life and disappeared without a trace on a trip to Malaysia in 1967. The glass art here was inspired by a trio of red umbrellas shading the side of his house that bordered a lovely garden and shade trees.

Red Umbrellas

I’m almost finished 3 fused glass panels for a plant biotech company. They represent a Sunflower stem cross section, an onion root tip thin section, and a plant cell with CAS Crisper enzyme – DNa system in the nucleus. Now I just have to get them framed for hanging.

Sun flower stem (sold)

CAS Crisper in Plant cell (sold)

Onion root tip (sold)