Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photograph. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Getting Ready To Take It All Down

414981 - Blue Blue Day, 15"diameter






After having our gallery walls hung with our huge Glaze Tectonics platters for the past eight years, the time has finally come to start taking them down and crating them up. They simply have never sold as well as one would hope. As much as I love looking at them and reflecting on them, they have never reached out to the public at large. Most people simply cant imagine paying 2D prices (ie painting, print, photography prices) for a clay disk filled with glaze that happens to hang on the wall. Maybe the lineage is too close to being a mug. Maybe it is the old dirt cheap metaphor. Who knows? Doesn't really matter. The real estate is too precious to leave these beasties hanging around. Time to bring them in from the cold, to wrap them up and call it a night.

Which leaves the next question: What is going up in their place? Ahhh. Prints.

Today FedEx pulled into the driveway and unloaded six BIG boxes full of framed, matted, photographic prints. Nancy and I sat down, went through all of my favorite images, and picked out a dozen. They are now framed in a few different sizes... basically big, bigger and DAMN that's big!

My hope is that Nancy and I will have time to repack all the platters this weekend and start hanging the new prints soon. I already unpacked one box and I haven't recovered yet. Mpix makes amazing prints! The framing job is better than I could have done on my own here. Very high end job! Definitely worth the cost. Next week: Pics of the new photographs on the wall!!

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Catching Up

It's been over a week since I have had time to post anything on this blog. I wish I could say I have been busy making pots. Nope. I wish I had been busy making images... but nope, I wasn't. I can't even really figure out where this week went.

I spent a lot of time waiting. I know that much. Waiting for shipments to arrive. Waiting on deliveries. Waiting for doctors. Waiting for the snow to fall. In the end, there was time spent on my derriere that could have been put to better use. At some point in all this waiting, I started rooting through the images on my cell phone. Nothing amazing really... especially considering the hideous quality... but interesting nonetheless.


This was shot right immediately as a huge storm went past (summertime).



Shot tonight, from the parking lot at the hockey rink in Lansing.



Nancy and I, at Taughannock back at the beginning of Summer 2009.


Living it up at Five Guys.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Family Visiting for the Afternoon



Today around 2pm, we had Nancy's folks show up with her Aunts Roberta and Charmaine and her cousin Judy joining them. Fantastic fun way to spend the afternoon of a gloriously beautiful day.

We didn't get a ton of time to socialize this visit but we did get a brief walk around the garden and a short demonstration in the studio. I hope the next time we do this, we can time it with a nice long meal at Hazelnut.