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| I channel an 18th century Korean cabinet. This one is gone, but I'm working on another. |
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| Let us try for once not to be right -- Tristan Tzara mirror |
“What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.”
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
The mirrors and collages are finished with multiple coats of brushing lacquer.
I use acrylic, watercolor, inks, pastels, rubber stamps, decorative papers, collage, color copies, and anything else at hand.
I almost always use my own epigrams on the mirrors, but occasionally I quote, as above.
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| Anxiety mirror with self-portrait. Well, who isn't? |
And who doesn't worry?
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| My only protection is this constant worry. |
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| Red-Crested Flamingo Invasion |
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| Phony Wisdom |
This figure was made of fiberglass with pigments mixed into the resin
as it was applied to the fabric. My hair is now somewhat shorter. In those days I made large fiberglass masks, and masks and
figures cut out of sheets of plywood, with other wood shapes applied, some turned on a lathe. I painted the figures with automotive
spray lacquers, which were difficult to master and required endless hours of sanding.
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| The artist with Green Man sculpture, in the 70's. |
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| The purposeful life must struggle with the constant maddening distractions of everyday life. |
These masks are sand cast in urethane foam. The eyes are made of casting
resin and dyes. I made three hundred of these.
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| Some masks |
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| I worship God's better side. |
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| If you truly want to preserve the wilderness, stay home. |
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| Hair anxiety |
This is my Twitter picture, at the moment. If you're
one of those people always looking
for more ways to waste time, follow me
@stoicmike.
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| Sometimes I really need to take some time to think. |
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| I would cast plenty of stones, if only I were without sin. |
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| Dignity is never in a rush. |
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| How to live is a more difficult problem than the origin of the universe. |
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