I was able to put all my recent lessons together in a work titled
"Spirit House" which will be in a group show called STUDIO2STUDIO at CoolArts @ The Gallery in Corning, NY, April 27-May 27, 00.
The house structure of the sculpture is made of overbeaten flax decorated
with yellow gold and gold metallic thread wrapped around branches formed into a teepee. The branches form a five-prong top. The prongs are adorned with a 2" diam ridged flat circle transparent brown-amber (flameworked) glass bead, a copper wire
spiral, a copper wire coil, and between the remaining two prongs, a tiny
hammock of gold flecked flax.
This structure sits above a triangular glass floor constructed of fused float
glass pieces with various inclusions. The inclusions are a copper wire spiral,
copper triangle, red and green glass enamels. The floor has seven Pacific
Ocean stones and a blue-purple (Bullseye irid) kiln-fused
figurative piece adhered to it. The House is tethered to its glass floor by
copper wire wrapped through the three openings in the glass and around its legs.
Another piece, Prayer for Amadou, has a kiln-formed woman made of spruce pine glass with colored inclusions, standing before a kiln-formed shield of glass enamels and float glass pieces.
These are sunk in (sandblasted indents), and bonded to a
float glass block sandblasted with symbols.
The other two pieces in the show are a furnace-cast piece with copper and
copper wire, called Infinite Woman and another kiln-formed piece called Crystal
Road Shield made of Schott crystal.
I also have work in a show, Corning Chapter of the Society of Glass Beadmakers, opening shortly at the Rockwell Museum..... my Ascension Series Jewelry.
Now if I could win the lottery so I could stay home and get some more work done! Send any art patrons my way, please.
Love to you all,
Akua
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