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Welcome to my gallery -- my work is a complex play between alternative cultural symbols and my own take on visual appeal in small personal objects.
(That is to say: I like pretty little things with poetic depth.)
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Toads are very interesting symbols in most cultures. Abundance, transformation, and longevity are some of their most appealing attributes.
Historically, they were believed to carry a stone in their head which was purported to be a universal medicine.
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Ancient Egyptians used the core method for creating their perfume vessels before the technique of blowing glass was developed.
I like this technique both for simplicity and for it's nod to the past.
These vessels with stopper are all 2.5 to 3 inches tall. They all have true perfumery-style stoppers made of glass.
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Striving to become better at making florals, here are my meager attempts.
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My aesthetic is wabi sabi -- a term from Japan that roughly translates to beauty found in imperfection.
Richard R. Powell summarizes by saying "It (wabi-sabi) nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect."
Andrew Juniper claims, "if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."
It is also two separate words, with related but different meanings.
Wabi is the kind of perfect beauty that is seemingly-paradoxically caused by just the right kind of imperfection, such as an asymmetry in a ceramic bowl which reflects the handmade craftsmanship, as opposed to another bowl which is perfect, but soul-less and machine-made.
Sabi is the kind of beauty that can come only with age, such as the patina on a very old bronze statue.
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