Glass
Fused To Metal Enameling is glass fused to copper or other metal at high heat. |
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For more information about how I create these enameled works, please see my pictorial demonstration of The Enameling Process. |
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Medano
Morning |
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Red
Rock Rhythms This piece, inspired by Red Rock Canyon near Pikes Peak, Colorado (a
property protected as open space), was created for the Palmer Land Trust "Art
for Land's Sake" benefit art sale.
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Archivist The glass (enamels) forming the petroglyphs
above the chukwalla are underfired, creating a slight relief
surface and remaining grainy instead of fusing completely.
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Waters From Stone Torrents of clear water rush straight out of the walls of Marble Canyon as it deepens toward Grand Canyon. I cut the sgraffito inscription through unfired translucent enamels; the fired lettering is bare copper, oxidized black. The words are explorer John Wesley Powell's description of this place he named "Vasey's Paradise." |
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Canyon
Heart Reflections in a pool in North Canyon, Grand Canyon. Smooth, brilliant
reflections shine among shadowed sandstone. In this piece, the powdered
glass depicting the surrounding sandstone is underfired, giving a rough, grainy
texture, while the enamels depicitng the pool and reflections are smooth and
translucent. |
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Benediction Inspired by Deer Creek Falls, Grand Canyon. The enamel depicting the foreground cliffs was scratched through (sgraffito technique) before the first firing, exposing the underlying copper; in firing, the copper oxidized to black. The ridges and crevices in the cliffs create physical variations, giving a slight relief surface. |
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Granite
Rapid, Evening Opaque enamels form sky, lower cliffs, and
river, while transparent enamels intensify the underlying copper
to depict high cliffs catching the sun's last rays. |
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Canyon
Lifeblood |
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Oasis |
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Double click
the image to see "Palimpsest" at a different angle
to the light. |
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Palimpsest |
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Quotes In Palimpsest Through our eyes we inhale light and images - light and images we share with every being on earth. And out of our eyes we exhale a light or a darkness that is the spirit in which we perceive. --My Story As Told By Water But some say dust is the beginning, its slow accumulation and eventual density in space resulting in the formation of great rolling nebulae, in the emergence of expansive galactic clusters, the collapse of heavy stars into themselves. Dust, in the right circumstances, can make its own light. --"A Self-Analysis of
Dust" But as my sight by seeing learned to see, --Paradiso Make of yourselves a light --Buddha Let mine eye bless all it sees --Gaelic blessing Light upon Light --The Qur'an |
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Garden
Party |
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Mezzanine |
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Contemplation |
