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  • A Beach Full of Other People’s Trash

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    On Monday night I cruised a beach on the Yucatan Peninsula looking for dead coral for making texture molds. In the picture below you’ll see some of the pieces I found. And, *look* at all the sea glass I found. I was so excited I had to limit myself to picking up the less common…

  • Clear Water, Clear Mind

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    SCUBA diving in clear warm water clears my mind, and a result I have new ideas for some earrings to create for this next weekend’s The Virgin Artists’ 6th Annual Show and Sale in Cupertino. Look at the lush coral landscape in this minimally impacted area of the Carribean. And, views like this when I’m…

  • Coral: Slow, Beautiful, and Precious

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    I ran across the Too Precious to Wear website today http://www.tooprecioustowear.org/I think the site does a nice job of providing an overview of the affect that coral collecting has; both scientifically and on the local economies. The site also provides a list of alternatives to using coral. Those of you who know me already know…

  • Hydraulic Press Demo

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    At last weekends Metal Arts Association of Silicon Valley meeting we watched a demonstration of the Hydraulic Press by local artist and educator Edith Sommer.Here are some of her aluminum dies and resulting copper forms, along with some of her other tricks such as gasket rubber to make the shape deeper and wire taped to…

  • Summer in the City

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    View of the Cliff House from sea level There’s nothing like a November day that feels like summer with clear skys and temps in the high 70s and low 80s. 🙂 And, it was on the first day I’ve spent time in this part of Golden Gate Park – right on the beach. Soooo perfect.…

  • Updated the Website for an Upcoming Show

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    I’ve been very busy lately updating the website for my upcoming group show with The Virgin Artists. Fellow artist Adea Fong created new buttons for the artists joining the show this year, and she also created a new button for our newest category “Home Decor.”    The site design we collaborated on 3 years ago has…

  • Bactrian Treasures, Velvet da Vinci, Maya Lin, YSL, and Stanford Taiko

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    Friday was a gorgeous fall day in San Francisco.  Clear skies and warmer than average temps were much appreciated in our day spent out and about in the city. In the back of my mind, I knew there was a  mint in SF; and I had visited mints in other cities. Friday I noticed the…

  • Going Vertical

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    Thanks to Richard Hart. His Aug 2007 Ganoksin post for the idea to create a custom flex shaft hanging stand with hardware store parts has come to life. We spent some time in the plumbing aisle at the hardware store (believe it or not – only 1 trip!) and made Richard’s idea come to life…

  • Halloween Candy – Eye Candy

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    On Halloween, friends and I admired the work of Michael Zobel and Peter Schmid of Atelier Zobel. Both designer/owners were at de Novo gallery in Palo Alto for a trunk show.  The artists are as enthusiastic about their work as the rest of us are.

  • Visit to the Cantor Center

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    On the day before All Hallows’ Even, I spent the afternoon with a friend at Stanford’s Cantor Center for the Arts. We viewed the exhibit of Diebenkorn drawings and paintings of Santa Cruz Island. Santa Cruz Island is one of the Channel Islands off the coast of CA. Also on exhibit were contemporary glass pieces,…