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Reflections About My Sculptures
In about one week and I think it was in 2020 during the scourge of Covid, I just said to myself “Enough.” Enough of making increasingly unsalable work because it was becoming more and more what I needed to do which was always a big thing to me anyway once I left making pots behind. And creating a new patronage after we moved out to Oregon and witnessing almost every artist try to sell their work for peanuts was not encouraging.
But the big reason I skidded to a halt was because I wanted to take care of my increasingly hurting old body. Arthritis stiffened my wrists and ached in my back. While I was trying to sand a basketball sized globe out of hard insulating foam on my biggest drum sander, it flipped off and struck me in the nose. Blood poured out of that orifice. Luckily it wasn’t a piece of wood. Leaning over my work for hours was not helping. So I stopped and that left a black hole in my creativity. “Oh, I thought, I’ll just go ‘have fun’ like everyone else. I’m finally scrambling out of the hole and one thing I like to do is reflect upon my life as a sculptor. So in this section of my web site, I’m giving it a go. Maybe you’ll find a piece you bought from me and now the circle is completed.