My new favorite color

I finally got the mill up and running. There will be no more relying on pencil marks.

The shop is up and running

The shop is about 99% operational. I have a couple of pieces yet to purchase.

The stairs for Steve Nagy.

It's been a long time coming, but the stairs are complete and installed. The details of this job were worked out and I received a deposit for the job just days before my shop caught fire and burned to the ground.  Fortunately for me my client was patient and let me proceed.  Aside  from obvious set backs resulting from the fire, the outcome was nice.

Grass fed photos

fossilized proof that practic makes perfect

explaining "Greener pastures" through diorama

bone vase

Life springs eternal from the bones of our backs

some day strange and tiny things will find you delicous

mental experiments concerning life death and the transmission of gasses

you shouldn't think on an empty stomach

bone yard

It's been a while, here are the photos from grass fed.
My daughter was the driving force behind these pieces.  She had questions about what happens when you die.  As a father I plan on doing my best not to lie to her, So I told her that when you die you go back to the Earth and become, air, water, dirt, worms, birds, and a little of everything else.  with every breath you take you are literally breathing the bones of your ancestors.  I want her to have a connection with her surroundings that is so intimate and innate that no matter where she is she is always
home, and always among the love of her family.

The pieces shown above are all made from left over bits and pieces of aluminum scrap I've collected over the last couple of years.  Along with the bones from a cow that was raised locally and a small leg bone I found in the woods behind my house.  I tried to illustrate the infinite web of connection between us and everything else alive and  dead, in a way a 4 year old can understand.

Marathon week

The show is going up next week, lots of details are being worked out.

I'll sleep after it's over.

so far things are looking good.

GRASS FED

I have a small one man Sculpture show Going in at the Inside Out Gallery in Traverse City on 06/11/10.

The pieces in the show are answers to My daughters questions about what happens when you die.

CONSTRUCTION OF THE PERFECT STOOL FOR THE PARK BAR

We recently Forced this one out. The bent wood back will be done soon.