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Merit Ptah - limestone relief - wife of Ramose at Waset (Thebes) - New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty - Egypt - approximately 1400 - 1362 BCE

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Mikki Omphalos - w.i.p. state #26

Decided to use this piece of red & green striped Connemara slate and several semi-polished green glass rods. As pictured the piece measures 10½" x 8¾" x 1¼"

Still undecided as to what type of stone upon which I'll mount it — I'll have to see what is in the boneyard if I can clear away some of this summer's plant growth.

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Omphalos (Mikki’s Navel) - w.i.p. state #24

Re-leafed the lower right quadrant and applied several coats of patina to get verdigris.

Omphalos (Mikki’s Navel) - w.i.p. state #25

After verdigris had dried a few days I came back with colored pencils.

Several ideas for inlaying that I'm playing with . . . no decisions as yet.

blue glass variation:

yellow travertine variation:

green glass variation:

red slate variation:

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two vortex bubble rings underwater as they interact with one another

#GIF #vortex bubble ring #toroid #underwater

Forbidden Planet

1956 - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - directed by Fred McLeod Wilcox

music by Bebe & Louis Barron

Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson, Earl Holliman, George D. Wallace, Robert Dix, Jimmy Thompson, James Drury, Harry Harvey Jr., Roger McGee, Peter Miller, Morgan Jones, Richard Grant, and Robby the Robot

a nod to Shakespeare's The Tempest

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Omphalos (Mikki's Navel) - w.i.p. state #12

unglazed stoneware, schlag-metal leafing, verdigris patina - 10½" high (i.e. - life size)

Mikki was tall and thin and she modelled for my clay modelling class several times in the early 2000s. While most of the students attempted to capture her poses with the whole figure, I usually focused on selected details of her body and modelled them in close to life-size scale. We used a gray clay body that fires to a matte white stoneware that allows for a variety of cold finishes. In this case I leafed the smooth-surfaced stoneware with imitation gold (schlag-metal) and I applied four applications of the liquid patina chemical (three sprayed-on and the final one daubed-on). The next day the completely set patina was sealed with a clear satin lacquer. The ceramic is mounted on a smaller rectangle of 1/4" masonite with urethane adhesive. The masonite is fitted with three 6-32 threaded T-nuts. The T-nuts will be used to attach the stoneware in a float-mount manner onto a somewhat larger stone slab backer (specific type & size of stone has yet to be determined). The front of the design will probably be fitted with some sort of inlay — possibly colored stone or glass. I may also re-leaf a portion of the surface and apply a different patina to it for contrast. Design by intuition . . .

#sculpture #modelled clay #life modelling #navel #wall sculpture #leafing #schlag-metal #Mikki #my artwork #omphalos #verdigris

The Garden Series

These works were all done as homages to people who have influenced me in some way. Some are authors, musicians, or other artists whose works have given me some sort of positive energy. The works represent what I imagine their back gardens would be like . . . metaphorically of course. They are presented in no particular order, but beginning in the upper left they are for musician Bob Wills, iconoclastic musicians Tom Waits, Raymond Scott, & Sun Ra, jazz musician Red Norvo, author Larry Niven, comic Jon Stewart, artist Juhani Jarvinen, jazz singer/musician Nina Simone, author Thorne Smith, jazz singer Billie Holiday, the collective acting cast of Deadwood, author Ray Bradbury, artist Jean-Erik Kullberg, author Loren Eiseley, Anonymous (arists/musicians/authors), artist Bill Dinnesuk, blues singer Bessie Smith, author Kurt Vonnegut, jazz musican Pee Wee Russell, artist Wilhelm De Kooning, songwriter/singer/musician Charles Trenet, author William Gibson, artist Dan Henderson, dancers Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, and artist Bill Knight.

The series is ongoing and the works usually only acquire an identity after they are partially or fully done — when I come to realize whose garden is metaphorically being represented. Although each of the garden series is an homage, not all of my homages are in the form of metaphorical gardens.

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Joe Clark (American)

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Shigeru Mizuki (Japanese, 1922–2015)

GeGeGe no Kitarō - originally Hakaba Kitarō (Kitarō of the Graveyard) - Japanese manga series - the half-human, half-yōkai boy named Kitarō is contemplating mortality as he sits in a graveyard

#art by others #other's artwork #manga #Shigeru Mizuki