Wall Sculptures: The Refractory Series

This began with fingernails making marks in refractory bricks from an old kiln. A fascination with how soft yet so strong this material is. That quickly moved into making marks with old nails, hacksaw blades, and the Dremel. Marks turning into symbols, symbols coming together making stories, stories from patterns around me spurring thoughts and emotions coming through me, now frozen forever in these bricks.

Once glazed, the firing in the kiln bonded them together, forming a three-dimensional sculpture. Eventually, when I ran out of old bricks, the work transitioned into my first love, clay, and these bricks started to climb the walls. I knew these stories in patterns had to continue.

So became The Refractory Series.

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Rain-

How it captivates me. Amidst tha arid vastness of the desert, I find myself yearning for its arrival. My art seeks to celebrate the myriad manifestation and enchanting contours of rain. from the tender inception, as minuscule droplets materialize in the air to the delicate drizzle creating a tranquil rhythm upon the land. and then there are moments of torrential downpour, where the heavens unleash a tempest that can sculpt and reshape the earth. Yet in the midst of this symphony, there is always a promise, that the sun will return.

Won First place in the 2022 Water in The Desert show at the High Desert Cultural Arts Center.

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