Interactive Design and Art portfolio
A wooden saint; 8 or 9 buttons; a bulb; another bulb with a small ceramic block; a marble and a piece of circuit board; nothing; blobs of brass, aluminum and glass from Glass Beach; a die and flower photograph; a small ceramic block that says “Thomas;” a fly and marble.
I made this from an electric typewriter and most of a plastic “Mr. Thrifty” anatomical skeleton. I traded it to my friend Sharon for a disturbing painting a long time ago.
I built this blatant ripoff of homage to Pablo Picasso’s “Toro” out of the left over pieces of my Brooks saddle repair and a particularly scary pair of handlebars. My son and my mother-in-law both love it and won’t let me sell it yet.
Currently for sale on Etsy at the bargain price of $110 $197.00
This is one of three “Machine Masks” I’ve made by painting eyes on old metal things. There’s a vacuum cleaner made up to look like an alien, this Evinrude gas can with scary eyes and a protruding tongue, and a Samurai adding machine that actually works. I have another gas can I’m turning into a suprised cyclops.
I’ve been amusing myself with my sculpture listings on Etsy by including one shot that shows some evidence of the photographic process – my shadow on the image, the camera taking the picture, etc. Some semi-random, semi-throwaway image to use up the fifth detail shot.
For my Machine Mask Alien, I did a “crosseye 3D” shot, where I moved the tripod about four inches to the right, between shots. To see the image, you unfocus your eyes, concentrating on getting a phantom ‘third’ image to float in between the two images you see. In a very chi gung way, focus on that image, without forcing it. If you relax and concentrate enough at the same time, the center image should solidify into a three-dimensional (looking) image.
Cross your eyes to see the 3DI moved the camera between shots, marking the floor where the tripod legs were, and then a spot four inches over for the other “eye.” It seemed to work okay, but I’ve seen more striking 3D effects with this. I think that moving the camera more, or using a shorter lens might exaggerate the effect. This was shot with the zoom set at 70mm, and moving the camera about 4″. I think it may help to NOT turn the camera toward the object, too, but I’ll have to experiment.
As if you didn’t notice… I did the same thing with the 3D glasses I made. If you create the third middle image by looking past the glasses (parallel 3D), they appear to flip over, at least for me.
This painted and cut-out gouache on paper character goes with a Machine Mask sculpture I made from an old adding machine.
My Machine Mask sculptures are cast-off objects of the Industrial Age (vacuum cleaners, gas cans, adding machines) that I paint eyes on to create tribal masks.
A sculpture of a tandem bicycle that hinges in the middle. Each rider drives one wheel, for dual-drive traction. It also allows much shorter drivetrains and a freer pedaling style for each rider.
My own design. In theory it should work!
This image was used as an editorial illustration in Bicycle Times.
These assemblage sculptures are very simple – wood and metal. A downspout, a monkey wrench, or a vacuum tube from a radio transmitter, they are the most distilled-down assemblages I’ve ever made.
I like the serendipity that simple rules can lead to, like the metal downspout exactly fitting inside the box. These three are for sale on Etsy.
assemblage sculpture on Etsy
Artist
Interaction Designer
Project Manager
