Brad,

Thanks for the feedback on the "gallery furniture". I am somewhat physically disabled from a long ago coal mine accident so this work is a stretch for me. Lots of "Deep Heet" and two or three times longer than anyone else doing similar work.

I was asked to do designs that would feature the art on display but not take away from it. When we get the professional pictures back, I will post pictures of the stands with their respective Raku sculptures.

scrollerbear

This designer-craftsman approach that we both seem to have chosen, does have it's share of bandaids and bengay. There are always those people that can do a job faster and cheaper. It's doubtful that the product those boys produce has the look and feel of a craftsmans work. The care you have shows in the product. Now hurry up get back to work.Look forward to the pics. Brad

Brad,

In regards to the Raku sculptures that I have been building gallery furniture for: Below is the web site of Selby Gallery in Santa Fe that Mary Mansfield has her work in. If you go to Mary's section on the web site, you will see one piece with a triangular steel base and copper plated pipes rising up to the sculpture. I also did most of the wooden bases. Mary uses a lot of "found object" material in her sculptures and bases. Like me, one of her favorite past times is a day wandering through our local metal salvage yard.

She had to laugh the last time she went to the salvage yard. They told her that they had some great new stuff she would be interested in........it turned out to be my scraps from the scroll saw cuttings that I had sold them the week before.

Last week, I did stands by drilling two holes 2.5 inches apart in large oil shale rocks with two 3/8ths inch copper tubing approx. 20 inches tall supporting Raku Masks. They are really cool. The masks have a pocket on the back that the tubing fits into. Of course, I had to save the dust from drilling the oil shale rocks so I could show my 4 year old granddaughter how well it burned. She couldn't believe that I could burn rocks. What a stink!

www.selbyfleetwoodgallery.com

Hope all is well with you and keep up the incredible work.

Mark

Mark,
Glad to read you. Boy I miss my salvage yard connection in Indiana. Many of the places here simply won't let people tour and pick. Love those places, I once bought six matching manhold covers. That was my claim to fame at one yard from then on employees would set things aside for me to look at, Great people. I'll be checking the web site, just had to say, Hey
tight lines
Brad