Here’s a new series of Imaginary Botanicals from alternate realities – When Plants and Animals Merge.   

8″h x 4″w x 8″d

26″h x 13″w x 9″d 

  9″h x 12″w x 3.5″d

3.5″h x 9.5″w x 3″d                                                                          

 All Glass and all made in 2011.

Happily, I just signed up for an Advanced Sculpture class this fall at De Anza College.  I have some ideas for combining paper with my glass and I will work on those in my class.

This is the tree I have been working on.

Night Tree represents those moments in the middle of the night when we wake up, can’t sleep, and there we are, alone with our thoughts, fears, secrets, worries, dreams, fantasies, and who or whatever God is to us. The knothole “pocket” holds silvered acorns – a secret place for us to store all those thoughts, fears, secrets, worries, and dreams.

  
I’m not sure I’m happy with the tree yet, and might experiment with smaller twigs off the main branches to fill it in a bit.

Everyone I know gets caught from time to time in some aspect of themselves or of life that doesn’t serve them –  depression, bad habits, unhealthy mental or emotional patterns, worries, etc.   Everybody suffers some angst throughout life. 

This piece depicts being caught in these unhealthy situations.  

I’m working on my second piece about angst/depression. The first was photographed last Monday and I’m anxious to see how the photos turned out. I’ll post when I get them.