Sculpture # 243

Nuno felting experiment with crocheted wool and needle felted sections.

Sculpture # 242

crocheted plastic ribbon, wool, cotton, wood

The remnants from the basket of work in progress . .  time to replenish the materials bin.

Sculpture # 241

Wood, crocheted wool, cotton, lettraset

Once in awhile there seems to be a work that develops "a tale" along it's path to being formed. This work certainly is one of those . . 

Last evening while crocheting, the needle (below) split into two pieces. I have probably crocheted well over 100 of the works using this needle. It is rare that a metal needle breaks this way. 

I decided to take the work in progress with me to the studio today.

This morning while walking through Beacon Hill Park on my way into town. I decided to take a shortcut through the foot path in the park . . past a few trees and into the clearing up the hill, walking along at a steady pace when all of a sudden I am stopped short with a tension at my backpack and look behind me to see that the work had been unravelling for at least a quarter of a mile, somehow a branch had found its way into my backpack and caught one of the 3 ply of wools in the work and continued to unravel as I walked without me knowing or sensing anything until it ran to its end. I started back along the path  (rewinding the ball of wool) thinking it must be a few feet, . . then seeing the sun hit the line I could see it was all the way back to the very point I entered the park. I felt as if I was in some puzzling performance work. I couldn't help but laugh at the strangeness of the moment. I was determined that today would see the completion of this sculpture. 

The typographic component came about at the last moment as I was completing the edging. I decided to do some free form placement of the letters without any preconcieved notion to form words, interesting that when finished I handed it to a studio mate who immediately said that he could see the word "PUZZLING".

And so it goes . . . lets see what's in store for # 242

Sculpture # 240

#240 started with very long wool scarf, it was rolled tight and crocheted over top.

Sculpture # 239

Crocheted netting twine, cotton, recycled ornament

# 238

crocheted cotton, wool

# 238 in the series

# 237

Crocheted plastic ribbon and netting twine, plastic mesh

# 236

crocheted fabric and netting twine

Sculpture # 235

Felted wool and crocheted cotton

Sculpture # 234

# 234 

crocheted wools, cotton

Sculpture # 233

#233

In the collecting of materials fragments of other works wait their turn to find a new placement in the re-visioning of objects. 

This one has wood-putty-dipped crochet as the starting point. It evolved randomly from there. . .while on bus trips and ferry rides.

Sculpture # 232

#232 

Wood, crocheted plastic, wool, cotton

Sculpture # 231

a revisioning of the "dishcloth"

# 230

Paper, rubber, cotton, wood

# 229

Recycled kitchen implement, twines, wool, cotton

# 228

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# 227

The series continues . . .  a gourd found in my bin of "sculpture materials" provides the base shape for this work.

#226

crochet over found object

# 225

# 225

Crochet with recycled wool scarf and ornament.

And the story continues . . .

These works . ."The cousins" . . come in to replace the works that have been sold since the start of the project.

Distort Sculpture # 222

The final in the series is now completed!

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Sculpture # 221

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Net float, crocheted wools, cotton

Distort Sculpture # 220

#220

Crocheting that uses a continuous adding (random) selection of the remnants of threads and wools from my supply bin.

Sculpture # 219

# 219

crocheted ribbon, wool over cardboard

Sculpture # 218

# 218

Another work that in generated from the saving of parts . . revisoning . . recycling . . perhaps to some degree hoarding of materials that have potential for further use. 

Plastic shoe rack fragment, shower hook, crocheted wools and plastic

Sculpture # 217

Driftwood, crocheted doily, wools, medium

# 217

Sculpture # 216

Crocheted wool, needle feting, interior form made by using expandable foam that expanded and extruded through the holes of the crochet.

Distort Sculpture # 215

Needle felted wool, crocheted rope

Distort Scupture # 214

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Distort Sculpture 213

Crocheted tarred marlin, jute, cardboard cylinder

Distort Sculpture # 212

Recycled items; rubber ball, plastic napkin ring, crocheted netting twine

Distort Sculpture 211

Crocheted sculpture over armature dipped in waterputty

Sculpture # 210

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Crocheted cotton and wool

Distort sculpture 209

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Crocheted Jute over recycled spindle

Sculpture # 208

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Distort Sculpture # 207

Vintage doilies, wood from an arm chair and crocheted cotton

Distort Sculpture # 206

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Distort Sculpture # 205

Crocheted ribbon, twine

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Sculpture # 204

Crocheted netting twine and sisal

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Sculpture # 203

Driftwood, graphite, iron oxide, metal pins, crocheted cotton and wool

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Sculpture # 202

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Sculpture # 201

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Distort Sculpture 200

Rescued from a walk to the beach  - this roadside find of a "wet mop" inspired this addition to the series. 

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Distort Sculpture 199

The recycled paper tubing liner used in this work once held tarred netting line. The lines of its history remain on the paper surface and I've held on to it for years. . . that ever growing bin of "possibilities" . . It has now has it's new home in this latest sculpture to join the Distorts Installation. 

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Distort Sculpture 198

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Wooden shoe form, crocheted plastic netting

Distort Sculpture # 197

Carved floral foam, blended human hair with marino wool, crocheted wools

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