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I want to follow up last week’s piece on Sarah Jaylin Mays by featuring Gold Town Burlesque. Sarah is the director and choreographer of this troupe of diverse and talented dancers. The troupe boasts a repertoire of dance techniques ranging from traditional burlesque to belly dance, gogo dance, aerial silk acrobatics, and fire dance. […]
This is partial inspiration for the last poem that I posted, My Neighbor’s Roses. These one’s aren’t quite as attainable–in fact, I day dream of flying over the fence somehow very discretely, and finally smelling that lovely bunch. However, the jasmine flowers remind me to stay grounded, and to appreciate the sweetness already so near […]
This Post Card was sent from Seabright to San Jose 113 years ago this month.SANTA CRUZ JUN 13 8 AM SEABRIGHT S 1912 798 – Sea Beach Hotel.SantaCruz,California.
This week I had the pleasure of working on a custom piece for a friend of mine, working with a fluorite spear. Its a special challenge to make a piece of jewelry based off of someone else’s vision. Most of the time, when I am creating I get to call all the shots and have full […]
After my last progress post on this piece, I had a burst of inspiration to add the woven panels on the side. I feel like they really helped to bring the piece together. The final step in the completion of the pendant was to add the bail. I had designed the piece to have […]
Sarah Jaylin Mays is an impressive artistic force. She approaches the circus arts with grace and professionalism. Sarah is a mostly self taught aerial artist. Above, she is pictured striking a pose on the aerial rope. She also performs with the aerial silks and the aerial hoop, otherwise known as a lyra. Climbing and performing […]
My favorite time of day is right before dusk, when the sun lets everything be golden for a moment. It’s like a spotlight on the entire world–tiny green leaves with white juices inside (when I was a kid, I used to think it was glue) shine like the rims of an old Volvo, like […]
Bringing multiple stones together in a way that is cohesive and not busy takes awareness and sensitivity. This is an earlier piece that I made. The wire work is very simple but the combination of stones makes the piece have more impact. The first stone that I started with was the cluster of smokey […]
This piece is very close to being complete. For those of you that have been keeping up with my posts, you have seen the progression over the weeks as I add more layers of wire and stones. This week I added decorative detail work. My goals were to make the piece as sturdy as […]
I am excited to kick off a new feature on local performance art with a bang. This is a video submission for Nocturnal Sunshine Burning Man Fire Conclave. Every year at Burning Man, there are groups of fire performers surrounding the man as he burns. These performers prepare long in advance in order to be […]
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