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This image is from the pocket watch diorama from AVAM’s Great Mystery Show.
Thanks for looking!
Let’s make year three of the pandemic the best one yet!
We know from previous stories and dioramas that escape from the Land of the Dead is futile. It never works.
But still, some souls try.
Anatomy of a Crime Scene No. 7 – the Philanthropist Office. Can you solve this one?
Here’s a quickie I did, to support my old college pal, Frankie Rollins. Her new book is called The Grief Manuscript. It’s powerful and moving and sad and about divorce. It’s available on Amazon, of course.
This animation is drawn from imagery in the manuscript.
A diorama in a Trader Joe’s green tea mints box.
2.25″ x 2.25″ x .75″
An Altoids Smalls tin, with my fingers for scale.
A doctor, a devil, a pumpkin head, a skeleton, and a witch walk into a scene during the month of October. The skeleton asks for a glass of almond milk, and the witch passes him a glass and a mop.
I found this amazing mantle clock at the thrift store – the same day I found the Arister clock, in fact.
I found this notice in the back of the clock, and as a point of interest, I read several articles about this company. It’s not reverent to this story, however, so I’ll write no more at this time.
Here is a little known piece of lore which I would like to share with you. A pair of scissors that was once owned by a late widow or widower seamstress/tailor/cloth merchant can be endowed with special properties, upon their passing. On the thirteenth day of the thirteenth month, one can peer through finger holes of the handles, and if the moon is bright, one can see into the Land of the Dead.
It is this lore on which the Revere Telechron Diorama is based. A widowed tailor made this discovery, and began to collect scissor, hoping to offer relief and hope to the most severely grief stricken among us.
I added a light inside the clock housing, and it makes for a nice atmosphere in there. The Tailor is conducting scissor research with his late companion, and consulting a list of deceased seamstresses, tailors, and cloth merchants.
You may have also noticed that The Tailor has a copy of A Map of What is Known of the Land of the Dead. He’s a very thorough researcher.
Here are some work in progress photos I took while working on this.
And, so, as the Tailor continues to grow and document his collection of scissors, he’s made some available for the rest of us to use.
I hear tell that some of his scissors will be available at the Hamilton Gallery during the month of October, 2019. Pass it on.
It might look something like this….
It was a little over a year ago that I made the first Charon shadow box. This is for an upcoming show at the Hamilton Gallery, and it seemed like a good “warm-up” for the upcoming work I will be making for this show.
This measure 10″ x 10″ and it about 2″ deep, and shows Charon guiding a ship through the Dead Sea toward the Land of the Dead.
A tenth anniversary commission from new friends in England.
This was a super fun commission – someone mailed me this tin and asked for a scene. This is a story to which I keep returning.
Here’s the “wanna get weird fellow” again.
A dear friend just had a birthday. This image seems to hold a lot of meaning for all of us this year, so I decided to make use it in a found pocket watch. The watch already was monogramed with 2 of the 3 correct initials.
Jeanne did her flower magic, and we added some skeleton hand salad tongs, because they are just cool, as well as useful, if you happen to have some salad.
I found this treasure at a yard sale. It needed a little freshening up because it didn’t seem finished. Here is the original (minus the frame):
And here’s the completed version.
P.S. I’ve done a similar piece, which is on view elsewhere.
I am very fortunate to be a curator for this year’s Alchemical Vessel’s exhibit at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for healing + the arts in Washington, D.C.
This also makes my second year as a contributing artist. Below are the images on my take of the theme “The Night’s Journey.”
Here is the gallery postcard with the details (click for full size):
