Archive for June, 2009
Monochrome Poise
Title: Monochrome Poise
Size: 18 x 18 inches, professionally framed
Cinca unglazed tile
Completed June 2009
Maximus Tabula Rasa
This next week I will begin my most ambitious project yet: a 4 foot by 3 foot paper mosaic. It was commissioned by my friend who is the owner of the Traveling Tickle Trunk, the bestest adult toy store in Edmonton. Once completed, the mosaic will live in her store on 99th and Whyte.
Because of […]
The Director’s Cut, Extended Version
The Damask mosaic is finished! Hooray! The home stretch had one irritating speed bump: “ol’ lefty,” a sinister piece lurking in the bottom left corner:
A frustrating lesson in porcelain cutting physics, it took me too many tries to successfully cut this (em-effing) piece. Below is a portfolio of the broken actors who didn’t make it […]
Read More..>>Now with 50% more puppy
The puppy has grown. She is almost as big as a slipper! Her personality has also grown; her new nickname is Rambo-na.
Speaking of growth, the Damask mosaic is almost finished!
This weekend we will be making our annual summer solstice trip to North Country Fair, held in Northern Alberta where the sun will not drop behind […]
Read More..>>How does your garden grow?
This week I spent a day at the Devonian Botanical Gardens at a staff retreat. While the scenery was beautiful, what heartened me most was the fact that their plants were just as hesitant to emerge from the ground as the ones in my vegetable garden. Or rather, my quite contrary (un)vegetable garden.
While the seeds […]
