Planned Obsolescence
.
Kiln-cast glass, mixed media, mixed mechanisms
.
2025
.
Two new sculptures in one week, must be application season or something... plus a little BTS & another related doodle from my MMXVII book, #FeelingsFromTheCloud (The first one).
.
#castglass #castglassart #glassgears #eyepad #kineticart #autodestructiveart
Biometric Amalgamator - 2025 - "about eyePad sized" - Lost Binder-Jet cornstarch cast glass, soft glass murrine & mixed media
A rare new-sculpture sighting on my 'gram & some doodles from way back in MMXVII that helped get me here.
.
.
.
#castglass #glasssculpture #eyepad #feelingsfromthecloud #biometricdata #digitalglass #lost3dprintcasting #datavisualization #newsculpture #contemporarysculptures
Glass folks who stand for Palestinian sovereignty, and against genocide, apartheid & violent occupation, please head over to @glassartistsforpalestine to add your name to the solidarity statement & to stay tuned for more info! Major thanks to the badass artists who've put in countless hours to get to this point.
.
.
.
#artistsagainstapartheid, #glassartsociety, #GAS, #Berlin2024, #Berlin2024GAS, #glassart, #artglass, #palestine, #freepalestine, #palestinianglass, #ceasefirenow, #flameworking, #kilncasting, #hotglass, #neon, #coldglass, #fromtherivertothesea, #endtheoccupationnow, #glassartistsforpalestine
Thank you to @floodthepost for organizing this collective action! From the 'stories' it seemed like a lot of people participated in sending physical mail to the White House, Dept. of State, House & Congress offices today. I love the imagery of an intern dumping out an enormous sack of letters onto a politician's desk.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
FREE PALESTINE!🍉 🇵🇸 🍉
.
Saki has been a great studio assistant, btw.
.
I sent out a pile as part of the action, but still have a few, if ya want a postcard for the fridge, dm me an address.
Swipe to read the poem up close
.
Anyone else growing up Jewish in America have this same foundational experience? Any camp friends out there who have come to terms with how different the evidence is to the narrative we were fed growing up, indoctrinated with Zionism?
.
Don't get me wrong, I had a great time at camp, lots of formative experiences I'm grateful for, I'm proud of the parts of my Judaism that embody compassion, empathy, resilience & resistance. I'm glad I was able to connect to my ancestral traditions through Bar Mitzva & reading from the Torah.
.
But I'm so totally ashamed of the Zionist movement and the State of Israel for how they've coopted Judaism for their white-supremacist, genocidal, Western, settler-colony. I'm so sad & angry that a completely uncritical love for Israel is instilled as the norm throughout most Jewish-American education, without ever really mentioning the abject violence it takes to uphold.
.
I remember as a preteen at @urjcampnewman doing faux army drills with "real Israelis" who would constantly glorify military service and tell us what a great life we would have if we moved to Israel & joined the army when we were 18. They gave us mint tea & made flatbread on an open fire while telling us Bedouin Parables. We all wore blue and white clothes & facepaint while waiving Israeli flags and singing nationalist songs to celebrate Yom Israel.
.
Anyway...Zionism doesn't make Jews Safer, Bibi is the devil & we all have a lot of unlearning to do &
FREE PALESTINE 🍉 🇵🇸 🍉
.
Art as Resistance. Art as Therapy. My drawing practice is pretty rusty, but it was really nice to spend a few concerted days in the studio with my dad's drafting desk & records, & the cat by my side.
.
& if this resonated with you & you haven't seen it yet, check out @israelismfilm . I wrote this poem before I saw it, but it elaborates on how deeply embedded Zionism is & the sentiment of disillusionment that many of us are feeling right now.
Fuck...still at a loss for words. It's been a few weeks and I still don't have much in response to "sorry for your loss" other than "me too" & "yea, this sucks."
.
I love my pops so much and know he loved me wholeheartedly. It's a trip going through all his stuff and being in Cottage Grove without him. Things and places are stories & stories are people.
.
I've known it all along, but am still in total awe of the incredible community he left behind, of the immense amount of love & care he put out into the world and got back from it, of the stories of incredible times shared & of the huge chosen family he cultivated from types of folks across the board.
.
I'm immensely grateful to everyone who's helped out in so many ways in this rough time, to the couple hundred people that came to celebrate him on short notice on a rainy Sunday, and to the couple hundred who wished they could have made it. I'm grateful to everyone that's reached out, just know I do really appreciate it even if I'm too overwhelmed to respond.
.
I've been thinking a lot about how privileged I am to be afforded the space and time to grieve and gather what possessions I can from my father's life. Every day I think about how horrible it must be to grieve multiple family members at once while just trying to survive Israeli bombardment, about how people are left with absolutely no possessions or even recognizable places to find comfort in the memory of loved ones, nor the time & safety to properly say goodbye, about how it's impossible to even be "post-traumatic" when the trauma is ongoing.
.
He was never religious in any way, but I'm glad my dad found some comfort in Earthseed near the end of his life & that he, after much urging, got around to reading Octavia's Parables (teen dystopia was his favorite genre, he was a bit of a prepper & longed to witness the fall of Western Civilization).
.
All that you touch, you Change.
All that you Change, Changes you.
The only lasting truth is Change.
God is Change.
Oh man, there's so many incredible artisans and such an amazing culture of craft in Oaxaca. Here's a few highlights from our trip (with @cindycindyas & @najahalboushi )
1-2: Manos Que Ven, an incredible sculpture oasis run by José García & family. The name "hands that see" comes from the fact that José lost his sight 18 years ago, but continues to sculpt in clay.
3-4: Apolinar Aguilar Velasco, a knife and sword maker that forges and casts everything by hand, using a wood fired forge with hand bellows in his studio. In the 80's they made Conan the Barbarian's sword.
5. Carved wood in an Alebrijes workshop in Arrazola
6. Weaving on a loom in Oaxaca City
7. Embroidered textile in the museum of textiles
8. Xaquixe, supposedly the only hotshop in Oaxaca state. They have a production line of simple, elegant cups, but also make way more cast, fused and blown art than your average factory. They have a small cnc mill for mouldmaking and a lot of really cool sustainability practices built into their equipment.
9. Painted ceramic vessels in a market in Santa María Atzompa.
10. Cheese mural near Villa de Etla, the birthplace of quesillo.
I finally made a frame worthy of this awesome @bradley_c_taylor vitrograph print titled "cheesy as f*ck" !
.
Brad and I met at pilchuck in 2019; he was running the print shop that session and I was working night watch. I coached him through making his second ever blown glass cup, we became friends and he gifted me this awesome mac n chzz print made from an etched glass plate! I've always cherished it, but now have the means to properly display it!
.
On a side note, @najahalboushi and I are currently soliciting the purchase of small cheese themed artworks to add to the cheese wall in our kitchen. If you make small chzz themed art, get at us plzz!
While visiting Tonalá, an industrial city that's part of Guadalajara metropolitan area, @najahalboushi & I found two glass factories (of many) that were open and obvious from the outside, both were welcoming & friendly to us walking in off the street.
.
El Triangulo de Cristal, a big showroom stuffed with tens of thousands of production glass objects for sale with a factory attached & a smaller unamed hotshop just called "Glass Factory" on the map. Both shops had a large central furnace with 5-6 crucibles of different colored glass inside. Everyone reheated, gathered and warmed pipes out of the same central heat source, though to be honest they were so efficient that there was barely any reheating at all.
.
All the glass batched in both factories was recycled, yet seemed extra soft. In the second factory, the lead glassblower, Jorge, (on the left, mould blowing the form & receiving the foot) told me they can make about 450-500 of the footed cups shown per day! Jacks & a footing tool were the only hand tools I noticed out on the bench, and all the bench rails were angled down, away from the seat. Awesome to see how people do things in other places & how efficiently they cranked that stuff out.
