Roots #2 rooting out the best concept

I have very strong views on the connection between agriculture and health. I prefer to only eat organic grass-fed beef. I prefer to not eat any gmo products and I feel best when only eating sprouted grains. I want to know where my food comes from and how it is produced. Agriculture has a huge impact on our personal health as well as on our environment. Roots play a large role in regenerative and sustainable agriculture. 

The first root - The root is fabulous all by it’s self. 

The trunk is not so fabulous. 

Off with the trunk- 

Failure #1- Experimenting with ideas- this idea emphasizes the important of roots in sustaining  life. - too obvious 

Failure #2- Another experiment- “burden”  I grabbed this marble sculpture I did a few years ago. I have always wanted to burden it with something on his back. 

I like the thought, I think it either needs more more more roots or a Sprout coming out of the root.  

The root would be bronze.  

Stay tuned to see how I will use the roots.  

“score” - #25 marching on

I was able to get another full day of work in. I was primarily focused on integrating the large piece of welded wire that makes up the movement created by his right arm with the steel and plaster figure’s arm and head. I am integrating the two by adding small broken pieces of wire cloth within the welded wire. 

Shoulder and neck attaching to the head  

Shoulder view from the front  

I also added some tiny delicate wires to the movement of the bows. The delicate sounds coming off the strings.  

the top back of the head 

One of my artist friends Vincent Blair stopped in and took a quick pic as I worked.  

My wire stash is on the pedestal. 

Peace pigeon #22

Last fall I started a project - an experiment with new materials. I made a new sculpture every week, with a new material. My subject the German beak - trumpeter pigeon. He is graceful, interesting and conducive to expressing energy. Picasso drew this same pigeon and called him a the peace dove.

http://www.arttimesjournal.com/art/reviews/May_June_10_Ina_Cole/Pablo_Picasso_Ina_Cole.html

I can't seem to stop the project. Here is another pigeon, I found him on our afternoon dog walk.  

Getting ready for this falls "known and underknown" show at art Brookfield- downtown Houston

My piece  "that ball is not going to throw it's self" was selected along with my "fetch I-VI" lenticular. 

I will be replacing the pedestal on the "tat ball is not going to throw it's self" piece with a chair. I am going to paint the chair with drippy, thick, flat white paint. It will look like plaster. I will then attach the wire dog to the back of the chair. 

I bought this chair on Montrose at a 1/2 price sale.  

The painting will start next week and probably go on all summer.  

 Known and Underknownexhibition to be installed in the lobby of 1600 Smith on September 8-  November 13, 2017. 

Found object/photo-El Trene de muerte

El Trene de muerte  

I took this photo at a wood working shop outside of San Miguel where they create beautiful wood tables. Surrounded by beautiful planks of  unfinished wood lay this forgotten antique paper mache figure. As he lay in an almost fetal position on the train like shaped table with his crudely amputated limbs he bravely tells the story of  el Trene de muerte, or the monster. I could not bring him back with me so this photo will have to do. 

"..in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty......." - a poetic moment -

On my brisk morning walk this beautiful leaf stopped me dead in my tracks. I carefully scooped her up and gently carried her home.  She is so beautiful I could not take my eyes off her. I took at least 30 photographs of her. When I was through she whispered a saying I once read.

"In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow." - Amit Ray

                                A fallen leaf  

I can see her pain in the veins that articulate her flesh, and I can see how that pain has entrusted in her a strength.  I can see in her frailty a grace.  I can see in her a beauty that can only come from falling. 

          - cindee  

peace pigeon project - powder room sink

I just realized that I made my first pigeon in 2004 when remodeling a home built in 1938. The only downstairs space for a powder room was under the stairwell. The space measured 46" X 33" (that is not a typo -  inches).  I bought a small toilet but could not find a sink small enough. My solution was copper bucket. I mount it on 3 claw and ball feet and placed it on top of a tiny marble shelf. The faucet is the head. = peace pigeon

The handle is the tail.  

It does not have the energy I like to have in all my pieces however ............ it was 2004. 

The nose in the far right is Grito my son Griffin's dog. Grito is a rescue from the desert outside of San Miguel Allende.  Yes he is in the US legally.  Grito has his own visa.  

Up-cycled

When shopping for my home, I love to go to flea markets and garage sales. I often buy broken things. A crack here there does not bother me. When I first started making #fauxbois furniture, I was always checking out concrete objects. I ended up with two concrete chickens; one was minus its head, and its tail feathers were damaged. Instead of throwing away the broken chick, I hung on to both - something about “like a chicken with its head cut off” was intriguing. That headless chicken hung around my garage for years, it made a good weight. When I started working in bronze, one of the first things I did was up-cycle the headless chicken with a new bronze head and tail. I sculpted the head and tail feathers in wax mixed with grits and grass. I made a mold of them, and then burned out the wax grass and grits and then cast them I bronze. I like the idea of giving new life to objects no one wants. I think these chicken could be seen as my first environmental pieces. They are not only upcycled chickens, but all birds also play a critical roll in nature. Fowl keep pests numbers in balance. All living organisms are connected.