“Sins of the Fathers #3″ © BG Dodson 2008. Mixed Media. 6″ x 5” approx. Clay box with fused glass & Intel Pentium processor. This is the result of a 2-step firing. The first firing had me hoping I’d managed to capture everything I wanted — but the window glass …
Mixed media. 6″ x 5.5″. Fused glass (stained glass, broken bottles, window glass) & vacuum tubes in a clay box. This is the result of 2 firings for glass fusing. The first time around I ended up with empty spaces and I wasn’t happy with the vacuum tube results – …
This began as an experiment in fusing glass within a clay box…an idea born simply out of curiosity. The metal pieces at the base are vacuum tubes (which apparently – logically must implode when melted) — the bones of the Fathers of Technology. This then, is a reliquary of those …
“Raven Transformation” Clay. Bisque fired to cone 04. Painted with acrylics. Varnished. Approx. lifesized. This is the first all-ceramic mask (well….the only one really) I have created. The idea is the transformation of the self….into a projection of something more than we often see ourselves as capable of. The willingness …
I have sat,shadowed in words blinded blinded by the brilliant lightof Sister Radio Sujatain a hellaceous back beat blown out of the tundra earth, ice and airreverberated in thin thunderof shimmered heat lightning delta wet desert smooth forest sighed until I found myselflost in the jet streamsomewhere over Tusitaand become …
This is a sampling of the bowls I’ve turned in the past few years. I love the mindless (to a point) process…..the shavings piling up on the lathe bed….the fragrant odor of the wood…..seeing something emerge from an ungainly block of rapidly spinning wood. It has become addictive. Most of …