Robot for Sarah Sze Plastic caps, glue

“Mustard for Claes’s Hot Dog” Mustard bottle, glue, glitter

“Take-out for Oppenheim”

Holy crap, what is this? It’s terrible. It looks like a wookie house. And I’m making a 4 foot high version of it. This is a terrible idea. I’m making nothing but terrible choices today. But I’m going to keep going with it. Onward into potential awfulness. It’s made out of a toilet paper roll…

I feel a bit like I’m making bad textiles 101 projects. I find myself asking is this a failure or a success? And I spend a great deal of time asking myself what makes an object a failure or success. And what can be gleaned from it’s making. The puff ball made me think about…

Cardboard Outhouse made from an Amazon.com box. For my additive Talisman project.

I’m working on a Presentation about Jan Svankmajer and wound up making a YouTube playlist of other Czech and Polish animators as well. I’ve got a playlist of Jan Svankmajer’s films here.

A Radiolab about the face blindness experiences by Chuck Close and Oliver Sax

I haven’t been feeling all that great lately and my appetite is sporadic. I decided to just cut out meat for a while just to see if I felt better. Then I walked into the Library October 1st and there it was – Celebrate National Vegetarian Awareness Month. At first I wanted to crack jokes…

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My article about “Quality is Contagious” at the Museum of Contemporary Craft is up on PNCA’s Untitled Magazine website. You probably won’t find John Economaki’s precision woodworking tools in your parent’s rusty tool shed. These beauties are works of art in and of themselves. But it’s odd to think that such creations might exist only…