Several years ago I built Glass Studio because I'd finally found what I'd do about retirement and that "do" would include learning and practice of all I had learned about forms of art I'd missed when I prepared for my other art-based occupations. I'd not dabbled in painting, or ceramics, or live models (now there's a picture… no matter its quaintness). There were the classes, and the seminars and the discussions, and bars and pubs. And there are the people. The painters and the ceramicists, the sculptors, the connoisseurs, the dilettantes, the family, friends, and neighbors. And not often and sometimes too soon, the shows. I did build and I did do all those things. Then I was sidetracked by the other world and my early experience. This time, though, I'm going to hang on better to ME and I'm going to share, here, whatever that involves.

Right now sharing involves following prompts to chatGPT and pokes from my loves, Jocelyn and Meridith, and questions from many others about why and how of what I do.

I had planned that in TheStudio I would create glass sculptures that were unChihuly. They'd not be blown anything, not bowls or vases or chandeliers, but sculptures of other things and creatures. My wish is to reflect… and transmit and dazzle with glass. I want to use glass as another material that is unlike stone and unlike bronze and unlike cement and steel. I want to use the color and texture and mass of glass along with characteristics of reflection and many degrees of transparency that are unique to glass.

My work in glass includes, at times, complex process. Some of these processes include times of waiting for chemistry or heat to do their work. Complexity fits my enjoyment of problem-solving and device building; the waiting… not so much. The grand plan includes painting during the waiting times. I chose to 'paint' in pastels because they fit my lifelong habits and occupations of drawing.

In the years since I wrote the first of these introductions, I haven't changed my ideas and goals quite as much as the world around me has changed. For the last too long, I haven't produced as much sculptural art as I've thought about. I am changing that non-dynamic. 

I've finally built my Patreon page where I'll show the how and sometimes the why of process. I'll show the outcomes of all processes whether they match goals or not. If I know why there are differences between the two, I'll also share that "why."

I'm hoping that by recording and sharing what goes on between my ears and from my hands, I'll get more of both done and you'll be entertained.

Here, you'll be able to find when, where, and what I'm doing. On my Patron page you can see details about how I hope and do (or don't) get things done.

So.

After you've spent some time here take a peek and join me through subscription and commentary in my Patreon page.