Bayne Gardner and I were interviewed on KLCC Oregon Public Radio. I think his work is incredible! Don’t you?

Now you see it. Now you don’t. The tale of the box that was rejected. The box is located on 13th and Pearl. I had to repaint it after the traffic department thought it looked similar to a traffic light signal. I worked on this, my...

A progress report: first photo is of me at work. I cut the stencils from tagboard, and painted, using spray paint, fluid paint and acrylic markers. Unfortunately for me, the City of Eugene felt the design looked similar to traffic...

Tuesday I will start with the designs. Hopefully the boxes won’t be tagged …

One box was tagged after I had primed them.

Cutting stencils on tagboard

First steps: cleaning, priming and working on the five designs that will relate. Since the imagery I would normally select is not politically correct or so I’ve been told, I’ll be staying with the original pod shapes and circles, but...

Art the Box Project - City of Eugene, Oregon I was selected (along with two other artists that I haven’t met yet) to paint five traffic signal boxes. My section is 13th Ave from Willamette to High St. This choice made me very happy as I...

Standing Tall I wanted to show how the legs were made. Dowels, 3” cardboard mailing tubes and tape tubes, then shot full of foam. Finally the legs are straight, sawed the legs off one at a time at the upper thigh (do giraffes have...

  Strictly for the Birds. Commissioned by Dr. Lonn Robertson.

America Celebrates!, an invitational touring show opened at the Longmont Museum in Colorado. My holiday was Dia de las Muertos.

I have been working with Perle Melting beads. I tried both and melting and gluing the beads. Here are the results:

One of the problems with textiles is how to display them. I’ve been making these small embroidered work on vintage doilies, but didn’t like how they looked just mounted on the wall. So I’ve decided to frame them in shadow box frames. The finished piece is 12” x 12”...