Driving off into the driving rain (Katie at helm, Jacob navigating), we are on the road to complete two back-to-back installations – “Riverbend” in the Academy for the Deaf in Faribault, MN & “?TBD?” in Grinnell Library, Iowa. On the way, we will pick up Zev in Chicago, who is flying in from a photo […]
Keep-Nut Used in Art Project “Confluence”
The installation is finished, and photos of the project are now up on the website! There is a very healthy large tree (a Zelkova elm?) that does block the view from across the street a bit as you can see: so here’s an edited image. Zev has expertly photoshopped the tree out, so you can […]
The glass is all made, just a few more holes to drill.
“Confluence” in process: I need one “you are here” dot. The 18th one is the keeper…
The ancient Egyptian terms “jnr n wdh” and “ ‘t wdht”, which meant “stone of the kind that flows” was a reference to glass. Similarly the ancient Greeks used the term for glass “lithos chyte,” meaning “molten stone.” Akkadian and Sumerian languages had terms for lapis colored glass and lapis the jewel, Ugnu-kuri translated to […]
Jacob just created this beautiful blog for my website. I’ll be posting photographs of my projects in process. I have two or three more hours to work before I can get the kiln firing. Tomorrow, I shall post about “Confluence.”
It will take many batches to complete this immense river of glass.