I think I was joking about the shepherds and the angels singing “Be Thou Not Afraid!” Not this time. Be afraid. Be rather a lot afraid. This is from a little-known story–it’s in the Apocrypha, the Infancy Gospel of James actually–about the Miracle of the Empty Buckets. In my church we’d celebrate it usually on […]
It’s kind of like a polar bear that started melting. There’s an old “Far Side” cartoon, “God Makes the Snake,” that shows the Big Man In The Sky rolling out snakes from clay. I guess he had some leftover clay. Squish squish…squish…”I guess that’s a bear…” This bear scares me. I’ve seen my fair share […]
A few one-offs I’d been wanting to throw into the mix, but couldn’t really get a context for…anyway, happy filler friday… Hmm. Too much torque on the old cheese slicer :( …or maybe this was specifically designed for “chees” but that seems unlikely. His head…his head is the same shape as the balloon. He’s […]
Originally I was going to title this “each candle is unique,” because, well, it’s true. When the artist runs out of crap from his junk drawer, well, it’s time to move on. New pastures. New things to drop into a bowl of mineral oil/polymer gel. This actually happened to my father once, he was a […]
I know this is a candleholder, and that it isn’t responsible for what it is, how it was made. I still can’t forgive it. Any candle you tried to put in this thing would gutter out and die out of sheer embarrassment. Anyway, it looks more like the world’s cutest restroom stall, anyway. A magical […]
I wasn’t sure if the title of this post was going to be about obsession, or just positive affirmation. Still not sure. “I made you this. Look…it’s you.” “I made this because you’re the light of my life. I thought that you could be like, a saint, on a saint candle, and that would be […]
I remember Florida, the brilliant blue sky, the beach, the shells…and I hold onto this tiny bowl of my childhood, a piece of the past that I can cradle in my hand. Oh, it takes me back. The way the tide swept you down among giant, terrible clams–oh, sure, nobody wanted to be the one […]
This sculpture makes me a bit uncomfortable. Naked angels usually do, you can’t really have that much dignity without some pants, at least a flimsy robe or a strip of gauze or something. But something about this is more blatantly naked than I’m ready for. Also, the poor thing is wrapped tightly around a massive […]
Portrait of a couple who have lost their noses. It’s sad when it hits them so young. I mean, you’re trying to get through the work week, it’s slow, things are piling up in metals and metal manufactures, pharmaceuticals, shipbuilding, textiles, tourism, food and beverages, or other, and then you look up, it’s Thursday, and […]
Mirror or candle. Either way. I will allow that nobody, not even Jesus, looks their best when they’re nailed to a two-by-four on a mountain somewhere and left to die. However, no amount of martyrdom warrants being forced to be a B- in Intro to Chandlering. Or, maybe, Jesus was actually a hideous golem made […]