Greetings everyone. Thank you for your interest in what I do. It is always appreciated!
Today I wanted to let you know I’ve finished a new group of vessels and gotten images posted on my site. As you may be aware I tend to “recycle” my titles because the thought of trying to come up with completely unique titles for every piece is daunting. Hence you see titles like Luminosity and Luminous Relic a lot with numbers behind them that let me track them individually. With this new group though I felt the need to add a new title into the mix for a couple of the pieces. “Chrysalis” is the new addition. I was doing a vessel with a general chrysalis form and feeling about it. That got me to thinking that metaphorically this really does fit beautifully with what I see these pieces as being about.
Broadly speaking I see my vessels as metaphors for us as humans. There is a physical body, that comes in a variety of forms. Housed within our bodies are our spirits or souls, a radiant inner light. With a chrysalis I feel like the metaphor gets even better. It is a form where a wonderous transformation happens within. Hence I come to the idea of us living our embodied lives in a process to help transform our souls to greater being. I liked the idea enough anyway to start using the core title of “Chrysalis” for pieces with this sort of form.
If you’d like to see the new work you can find it in two places on my site. Right now all the pieces are listed and available for sale in the ecommerce portion of the site. At some point soon I’ll be sending some of these off to various galleries that need new work, and taking those pieces out of the ecommerce part. So the other place on my site you can find images of the pieces, as well as where they are located once I send them on to galleries, is the Vessels Available section. The new pieces start with Luminosity 2013 and work their way up in number to Chrysalis 2032.
I feel I should also note that the recent, massive increase in silver and gold prices has gotten to the point where I really needed to increase my prices to compensate. I’m still keeping with my practice of leaving all older work at the older prices and just applying the new rates to new pieces. The way things are going I have this suspicion I’m going to need to do this again before the end of the year!
As an interesting side note, while burning old tax records recently I came across an invoice for a silver order I made just after graduating from college in 2001. This is when I really began making the vessels I’ve become known for. The spot price for gold then was $277 an ounce. The spot price for silver was $4.55 an ounce. Crudely speaking these prices have increased 20 fold since then!
I am very grateful to all the people who have collected my work through these years. You’ve allowed me to devote my life to this. I get to strive to bring more beauty into the world every day. It is something I treasure and greatly appreciate! Thank you.
