Student Projects / Summer 2014

Ready to take flight

Would you believe a lightbulb
is underneath it all?

A 10-year old student had a hoot repurposing an
assortment of found objects

Exploring mark-making in black-n-white on brown

A teen sketched her pillow design, cut the leather,
sewed together the 4 sides & sketched the free-motion stitching for me to add.

The technique of fusing plastic bags was introduced.
This student then took her newly-made "plastic cloth" home and used it to cover her block hooks.
 Very cool !

Purple Pig did not forget to stop and smell the roses.

This student wrote his name in bold marker lettering,
water-colored the negative space, cut apart the squares and rearranged the pieces 

Found-object fish

Art in the summer studio moved along swimmingly.

Design Week 2014

Please join us for a reception at 60nobscot as we celebrate the art and design community of Sudbury.  Come tip a glass, and meet the people responsible for some of the most diverse, high energy and creative work emanating west of Boston. Pieces from Kolman Artisan Glass, Walker-Cunningham Gallery, Cathleen Bradley, James Heroux, Jaeok Lee and 60nobscot's Ray Bachand, among others will be on display.

We are a group of artists and designers working within the confines of Sudbury, a small town West of Boston. We hope you will join with us early on a spring Saturday evening as we celebrate the creativity, imagination, inspiration, and fancy that bonds this diverse, loose knit group of like minds together. Our "wares" will be on display at the opening reception as well as during the entire period of Design Week. We also hope that a glass or two of wine, delectables from our own Bullfinchs Restaurant, the viewing of our works, and some thought-provoking conversation will motivate you into the rest of your Saturday night activities.

Scarlet Scandalvarius

11" x 23"

                                                                                       

Stringless instrument #4.
                                                     
The recent discovery of a 299 year old
Stradivarius violin (stolen and found stashed in an
attic) coincided with the construction of my            scandal-less scarlet sculpture.

As I work in my studio, I often listen to NPR broadcasts.  It was oddly inspirational to work on Scarlet as I caught this timely news-story last month. That news chatter then inspired me to view the older film, The Red Violin. Now there's some scandal!
                                                                                     

 Materials include vintage red tabletop, baseball threading, shoehorn

... piano hammers, snap findings and more.

Where there's a scandal, there's jeopardy!

Book Art / New Versions of the Reproduction System and Open Heart Surgery

With my recent community art project, Out of Context---The Pulse of The Page, finished and installed in the Goodnow Library's permanent collection, I now have an interest in repurposing old books. A stash stares at me whenever I enter my studio and they need to be moved. Some of the books are spineless and a few are still intact.  What now? 

I chose the new edition's design specifically to go with the book title
--- my condensed version of the reproduction cycle.

  On display at a favorite boutique are vintage condensed Readers Digests carved into alphabet letters. With that in mind, I cut a few letters. Very cute. Of course, I had to go a little further and make it my own.  Neither of these books (published in 1961) looked like they were ever cracked open. Hmm, I guess humanity figured it all out without reading the text. 

The expression on the female's face is so telling ---compared to the male in the shower.
The juxtaposition of the carving was spot-on!

Carving love was much more challenging.  (---aint that the truth?)
Not finished with these new editions;  I plan on editing the insides with my own stories.  

Again, the choice of book makes all the difference in the new version's design.
With a fabric scrap looped and glued in the spin. it can now hang ---like mistletoe.

 Much time and effort went into this open heart surgery ... but I have to try everything once (or twice or thrice).

Enough of getting side-tracked.  I gotta finish the book I am reading and then start my book group's latest title. 
I do like listening to books on tape as I work.  It's nice to hear someone else's voice in the studio.

Tree Craze

On a whim, I gave myself a challenge to use what I have in creating 

 a-tree-a-day 'til the 25th.  Sizes varied 8"- 48".

 I gave away a couple ... sold a few ...  others were digested. 

Re-Construction Gives New Function

1" thick, century-old timber salvaged from a farm-cart box was my inspiration. Creative eyes saw the original paint's horizon line with a sun setting over the water. 

 teapot with attitude (SOLD)

Inspirational piece was a vintage shipping crate which carried Funk & Wagnall's
to a farm in Maine. 

Louis Armstrong sings, My Heart

One from my new series: The History of Round

Vintage record song title: Have I Talked To You Lately (SOLD)

Window Shopping

My goods are now gracing the storefront window in the Drawing Room
at Anthi Frangiadis Associates.  This one-stop shop for Architecture / Interiors / Planning now houses my pillows, a lamp, a fowl-playhouse, found-object sculptures, assemblage constructions and more.  If you are in the Cape Cod area, please take time for a lovely coastal drive to 11 Spring Street, Marion MA to check it out for yourself.

CB's goods in the Drawing Room at Anthi.

US Flag / Assemble Your Own

Why buy Old Glory when you probably have stuff around the house to make your own.

Frame and Substrate:  Old window shutter minus the slats , piece of MDF
             Mixed Media: old books, building blocks, postage stamp, bingo game, music sheets, random hardware, ruler, license plates, left-over scraps from prior art projects, leather, furniture and architectural remnants
Tools: bandsaw, hammer, nails, wood glue, screws, hand-drill and bits, sand paper, ruler

Old Glory II

Red, white and ...

... blue

Repurpose a Wooden Box

               Old wooden, weathered window boxes get a new license on life
----along with all the rescued and repurposed paraphernalia that now dress them.

All for sale last weekend of June in Marion MA,  SEMAX sale.

Nothing is safe from reuse

Former garden gate and rescued plate team up.
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Sitting pretty, with or without a purpose, really.

Cracked bat hits a home run and offers a grip 

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