Disentanglement, 2016

ceramic, wire, beads
10 x 21 in (25 x 54 cm) $250

A space created for healing and rebirth during a vital life transition.

Covid Juggler, 2020

Found materials, wire, beads

13 x 38 in (33 x 98 cm), $450

All proceeds from sale will be donated to  

benefit farm workers in Ventura 

County during Covid crisis.

Covid Juggler – close up

Found materials, wire, beads.
Photographs by Harper Point Photography, Ventura www.harperpoint.com

Artist’s statement: Covid Juggler dances through our world to spin a global pandemic. Covid Juggler tosses out probabilities – who will catch it, who will spread it, who will sicken, who will die. Covid Juggler cracks open our systems, reveals our fragilities and fault lines. We respond with selfless dedication or selfish ideology; we feel fear, compassion, anger, and every available emotion, as we all get swept up in the dance. Covid Juggler just laughs and dances on, looking for the next opening. A court jester for our time, Covid Juggler shows us the truths about ourselves that we can no longer ignore.  

Fire in the Canyon, 2016

Drift wood, glass beads
17 x 41 in (43 x 104 cm) $250
A prescient piece completed one month before the Thomas Fire scorched Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. 

Disruption, 2020

Drift wood, glass & hematite beads
24 x 52 in (61 x 132 cm) $1,500

Created during March – June 2020 , this long bead work consumed many hours of patient contemplation of our world in chaos. After disruption, comes transformation.  

Mo’s Piece,  2017

Commission (private collection)
28 x 46 in (71 x 117 cm)

Integrates owner’s unworn jewelry, memorabilia, and special beads into crafted “talismans” made to symbolize different events and phases in her life. Do you have an event, person, or accomplishment in your life that you would like to memorialize in a special bead hanging? Let’s talk!

Pointless Barbwire

Found/repurposed materials, 2019
12 x 31 in (30 x 80 cm)  $175

Santa Cruz Island, part of Channel Islands National Park, once hosted large ranching operations. Now the ranches are gone and the island is in process of healing. Yet, there remain remnants of old barbed wire fences scattered around, just waiting for an artist to come along and pocket at few bits. Free hanging mobile. 

Green Energy Goddess

Ceramic sculpture, reclaimed wire, beads 
5 x 12 in (13 x 31 cm) (in private collection) 

A sacred call on the ancient energies of the Earth

Stepping Off

Found materials, 2019
17 in (43 cm) diameter, $250

3rd Place winner. 10/2019 Ventura County Arts Council show. Judge’s comment: “This piece is both elegant and restrained at the same time – exquisite in its simplicity. Using only two found ‘masculine’ industrial discards, the artist has successfully represented the ‘feminine’ contained by the circle – a symbol of the goddess, the indirect, Mother Earth…And yet in its minimalism this sculptural drawing is not static as the circle is dynamically misshapen and the figure gracefully ‘steps off’ of it
into our space.”

…and the point is?

Found objects, glass beads, crystal
(in private collection)

Balanced mobile using rust, recycled glass beads from Ghana, other stuff! Got rust? I can make something for you! 

Clostridium tetani (Tetanus) 2019

Found/repurposed materials, beads
8 x 40 in (20 x 102 cm) $125

Rusty nails! What did your mother tell you?
So I thought while composing this piece. Includes carved bone and seed beads, and yes, a skull… 

Shinto Lake – Rain on Gate (2019)

Glass and labradorite beads, redwood branch
14 x 36″ ( 36 x 91 cm) (in private collection)

Beautiful clear faceted beads rain down from dark clouds, splashing into a sparkling lake. Suspended from a branch recovered from a local redwood tree burned in the Thomas Fire, the piece offers a Shinto Gate to tranquility.