May 15, 2008

• Fortune

  

  First in a series of works for a show at the ellO Gallery next month. I gotta get crackin’; i was planning on turning out six pieces, all framed, for June 7. This shouldn’t be so difficult, since it takes me, what? like a couple hours to do one of these (a little more if I add color), but i haven’t been so motivated lately.

  I blame the beads.

  

  (Buh….buh….but they’re so pretty!)

  Speaking of beads, i got a new Donna Kato (polymer clay queen extraordinaire) book the other day, and I’m so in love with this piece.

  

  As usual, i have an opinion (surprise!) regarding polymer clay art. It seems to finally be getting away from the uber-tacky hot pink spirals and checkerboard phase (yarf), and has since chilled out into just being an interesting and versatile medium in of itself. On the other hand, though, i don’t really care for the other end of the deal, where it’s used to imitate all kinds of other materials to equally tacky extremes (ie, fugly plasticky looking wood grain, fake stone, bad flowers, and, and……. FAIRIES!). Aieee. Can we just let materials be themselves for once?

  Hey, I like art, and i won’t begrudge anybody their creativity. But here we apply the rule of:

  

  Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. I am looking at you, creepy flower polymer clay fug.

  Sigh. Stay classy, polymer clay. Stay classy.

  Also, Matt sold the first of his Robot Clocks, which was really exciting. He tends to doubt himself as an artistic person, or that he can actually be a creative entrepreneur and use the talents he has to his benefit. His family kind of rolls their eyes at him when he talks about his art or why he does it (they play golf, hehe), so there’s all that to overcome. But now the clocks are selling, so hurrah!

  

  Ok, the end for today. Can you believe i have to clean the studio AGAIN?

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