Wednesday, December 12, 2018

OK, let's try something new.  This piece, entitled "Clash", utilizes two types of my self-invented torched materials - confectioner's foils and recycled CD and DVD tiles.  Substrates include plastic welding rods, pieces of bottle caps and fields of corrugated coffee shop paper cup heat shield sleeves.  Wham!  Colliding in an arc'd composition like the crazed dream of metal and jewels.  Fun.
This piece, called "Stele", was an attempt to mimic certain ancient works of art using my weird, invented materials.  Though the photo seems distorted, the overall appearance when framed was quite nice and sold almost immediately.
The title of this piece is "Twister" and is more of the torched foils over thin splits of wood.  Applied strips of multi-colored foils help to create an impression of vortextular (just made up that word) chaos.  At least, that was the intent.  Along with just making something pretty to look at.
Another in a series, this piece is entitled "Ocean II".  It utilizes the same inventive array of materials as the "Ocean" piece posted earlier.
Tiled with multiple types of exotic and crazy stuff, this work entitled "Dalliance" uses many of the materials I've cooked up.  Torched CD pieces, torched foils, aluminum from food lids, etc.  Composed into a rectangular matrix, they complement each other and sparkle in very eye-pleasing ways.
"Sheen Machine" is the title of this piece.  It uses splits of wood covered in torched confectioner's foils along with multi-colored fragments of torched CD material.  The metallic sheen of the foils is captivating when combined with the torch-induced variations in color.
Torched confectioner's foils over blocks of plastic sheet with some tiles of jewel-like torched CD material comprise this piece called "Ocean".
The pictured piece is a small work done on an empty plastic CD case.  It is primarily composed of tiles of torched CD material with the large central panel of torched aluminum.  I love the jewel-like quality of the torched CD material.  The photo does not convey adequately the play of light and the spectral colors of these tiles.
This piece is called "Campos De Oro" and is composed of various materials including brass and aluminum, can metal modified with torch, heat modified foils over bases of different types and a few small highlights of torched CD materials.
Having not posted since 2013, I guess I better get on the ball and show some of my more recent work.  This piece is entitled "Other Realms" and is done with torched confectioners' foils modified with a torch over a base of random aluminum pieces.