Recent Work June 2019

Twilight

14X18X4

This face is looking into the twilight of pink clouds on a blue sky. This gaze is a sliver away from the golden hour. The transition time from light to night. During this piece I was focused on bringing the nose out from the face.

July 2019

Yellow cedar, glass beads, acrylic, ash, ptarmigan feathers.

Dawn Tinted Love

16x7x3.5

Dawn Tinted Love is a being who looks into the horizon of transformations. The forehead is the raw untouched rotted out center of red cedar. This piece was gifted to me by a friend named Jim. Thank you James Signoretti for being my lovely model. Funny thing here is the face did not end up looking like James but my focus was to work out some of the realistic features of the lips and eyes. I was challenged with the a shallow depth of material but was able to impart some realism into the gaze of Dawn Tinted Love.

Red cedar, brass plate, acrylic, glass beads, nails, and stain.

June 2019

SEDNA

21x9x5

Sedna is a goddess who comes from the legends and dreams of fisher people. As you look into her eyes you can see her looking into the distance. Like she is remembering the day when her family threw her over board. Sedna grabbed the side of the boat in hopes to be saved. Instead of pulling her aboard the boat her fingers were chopped off and fell into the ocean to become the sea mammals, walrus, whale, and seal. She was hit on the forehead and sank to the bottom of the ocean to become the Goddess of the Sea. To please her healers would have to go to her in the ocean and comb her hair. If Sedna is pleased by a healers and the people’s admiration she would provide mammals for he hunters.

MAY 2019

Basswood, brass rod, pearl beads, furniture tacks, dentalium shells, metallic beads, and stain.

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