bike builder

Jon, Delena and Noelle stopped by to purchase a few dishes. www.sabrosacycles.blogspot.com. He's a civil engineer in Arizona but his love is building bikes. They were curious about what it took for us to abandon the main stream life and do what we love. I didn't have any real answers except that there aren't enough people following their passion in life. He loves bikes and so does she. There's a bike culture out there that I'm familiar with on a cursory level, they live and breath it. From what I read on his blog, he approaches the craft of bike building like I do with pots, love the material, keep your artistic/bike building integrity and do it because you love it. Figure out the money later. That's his bike that he made in the truck. I like it when people like this visit me. The arts bring interesting and smart people into our lives

New and Used

This is the actual show. I think it was well received, at least Ben and I had positive feed back. There were a few people that wanted to censor the show. They thought that my work was too dark and would offend the children. The Glassworks Gallery director disagreed and let the show stand. My work isn't intended to be taken literal. In a way, it's self referential. As my friend Steve Olpin says(http://www.ranchexit.blogspot.com/), "that's you on those bricks".

The sculptures can be viewed in detail below.