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This is a hard batch to shoot, at least my two, because they are so intricate, large, and sweep out dramatically into the room from their surfaces.

Plus 3-dimensional art is difficult to show in 2-dimensional fotos.

All these shots of our art I’ve posted look much better and more interesting in actuality – the fotos don’t even begin to do them justice.

This was one of my last pieces in which I used copper fragments and coated them with salt infused acrylic polymer to get the blue-green copper corrosion; after this, I discovered how to make an instant liquid copper corrosion (just add water and salt and copper powder to acrylic polymer). This is one of my special pieces.

Mom – a.k.a. Mother Dwarf a.k.a. Florence E. Smith 1926-2005 – made this out of a glow-in-the-dark plastic vampire skull and turkey bones. She had me name it. In our sitting room where we spend all our time we have 4 Mother Dwarfs, 8 Ladys, and 9 mes.

This one is impossible to show. I made it for the Peek-A-Buddha group show back in 2004 that Yoko Ono was also in (her piece was a pile of free-take-1 white pins saying IMAGINE PEACE. The structure rising up and out from the surface is a 2 feet tall lamp shade frame that I sat on and bent semi-flat. This thing glitters, winks, reflects, refracts and grabs at you as you walk by and if you ever see it in bright sun-light you could be blinded. This is kitsch taken up a couple levels.