Having a physical connection to someone or something inspires me to think about that person or thing and why I have it or need it, or why I that person is important to me or not.
People from around the world spreading their thoughts and ideas is important to me because I believe we are all connected in one way or another and knowing and talking to someone from across the world can open up a person's life.
Without my friends I don't know where I would be. They help me think.
This is a picture of my grandpa's pond in
Oakfield, WI. I chose this as an inspiration because it is nature at its finest; undisturbed and wonderful. I love to go there and listen to all the sounds that surround me, knowing that this is all going to continue on with or without my influence.
Repetition has a very big influence on my work, it is so simple but yet it is so powerful and alluring.
Along with
repetition I really get excited about design in its simplest form, geometric shapes together creating a larger form that is phenomenal.
This was a drawing I did for drawing II last year and it inspires me because I was surprised when i finished at how much i really enjoyed it and how it inspired me to want to make it better and improve myself as an artist. As Frankie F. said just like the lathe can improve itself so can help myself, work hard and become better.
I also really enjoy flowers, they amaze me. Their forms and colors really stick out to me and attract me to them. This can be seen in some of the work I do.
My mother. She is wonderful and is very important to me. Enough said.
I know I haven't been around in a while but I just wanted to update everyone on what I have been doing these past four months. I started to enamel and I find it very exciting to use a medium with such complexities that challenge me to experiment and endure the different aspects of enamel that may restrictions. I work around these restrictions to create a project that is based on the human life cycle. From beginning, to growth and flourishing, and to decay and death. My use of foundation white enamel, soft fusing transparent enamel, and burnout is how I achieved these different stages of the human life cycle in jewelry form.
