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Skyhull / Lumenpear / Seedpod

Sometimes a series becomes a series of series, an extended family of formful explorations. This tribe of works evolved out of a couple of decades exploring with copper armatures, my own vividly-hued handmade flax fiber paper, beeswax resins, and light.

With these pieces, I was thinking of the armature-lined form that shapes the light as a contoured, translucent landscape. So the colors of the form of a boat might suggest as well a flower. Or the colors of the form of a pear might reveal as well a river or snail.

 

{link to sunflitten process: page with video}

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Skyhull

These works flush the assumption that boats must float on liquid, trade the ever-increasing pressure of marine depths for atmospheric expansiveness and light. Water, earth and sky meet in curvaceous forms mingling boats

and implausible things.

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Each has a built-in reflector spreading the illumination of the LEDs evenly throughout, and allow a glow of soft, indirect light to emanate from the top.

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Slipperfin

Why not a keel instead of a heel? Why not a fin instead of a keel?

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This light-emitting slipper boat glides through tropical skies, reflecting teaming fish life below its serpentine waterline.

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52" long  x 17" wide x 3" high

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Sunflitten

I've always loved the childlike wonder of looking up at large, colorful things, which may also explain my love of sunflowers.

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So, a lit boat in the sky that's also a sunflower? 

 

Inner Child says yeah, let's make that.

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55" long x 25" wide x 32" high

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Cloud Garden

A boat of flowers and fruits growing from its keel fin aquifer sails in heavenly mist.

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50" long x 24" wide x 33" high

Lumenpear

The pear has one of the most sensuous and evocative forms in nature, offering rich potential for inviting in unlikely collaborations. And its name makes for sheer delight in the interplay.

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As with the Skyhulls, these have a built-in reflector spreading the light evenly and casting gentle shadow play. Each has a Madrona wood stem.

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Pearphin

This synthesis of pear and dolphin revealed the potential of this vein of exploration, initiating the Lumenpear and Skyhull series.

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25" high x 18" long x 14" wide

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Ladypear

Love child of a ladybug and pear.

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25" high x 26" long x 15" wide

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Peariver

A sculptural collage of river elements. Besides the one pouring down the front, cool-colored waves roll through from the back, like water mixing afresh as it courses through the pear-formed landscape.

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23" high x 25" long x 15" wide

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