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on November 16, 2020

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the view from above

I have travelled a lot. I grew up the child of airline employees and cut my teeth on the tray tables of innumerable flights. I miss the ability to travel am finding it difficult to imagine the future of air travel and exploration of new (to me) countries. Today my daughter and I were imagining we were travelling. We packed a suitcase, wrote our own plane tickets and announced the boarding of flights. I impatiently looked at my watch, standing with my suitcase and a newspaper under my arm. The only thing missing was my ritual starbucks americano. We boarded the 'plane' and sat looking out the dining room window. I pretended to look down at a land far below me rather than the dying day lilies in the flower bed outside. Looking down from great heights is a pleasure unique to flying. You see topography in another way. This image, taken somewhere between Colorado and Calgary, was the starting point for the first edition of a new surface pattern To begin I imported the

the tessellation

My research interests have included tile, pattern and repetition for some time. Travels to Turkey only accentuated this focus. Whether the grilles on domestic doors or the remarkable tile in mosques throughout the country, these patterns have influenced the surfaces of my pots. Working in Rhino to create a surface pattern is not an unusual prospect for me. I have used Photoshop to generate patterns from hand drawn elements and these files were burned as screens. The resulting hand silkscreened paper was used as backdrops in two major installations (access images of this work here: http://mlceramics.com/portfolio-foureyes.php ). I also foster a love of quilts, especially those of Gee's Bend that employ a less structured approach to quilt building. In addition I seek patterns from the everyday environment. Here I look for places where the repeat isn't obvious, or intended. Perhaps the rhythm of the repeat skips a beat. I look for places where the makers made spe

explosion for the sake of knowledge

the idea of an explosion often brings the idea of destruction to mind. The object I choose to be the subject of this project may indeed be destroyed, but the digital three dimensional dissection of it will be the result of the experiment. in thinking about objects that would be interesting to consider I began looking around at what was close at hand. I work on an old drafting table with an articulated top that can rotate. It's too big to be used for this project. Needless to say it would also be hard to take apart the object you need to work on while working on the project to take apart the desk. my next object is a potential contender this is the basic IKEA desk light. I have had some version of this light as a part of my workspace since I was a teenager. I enjoy the simplicity of the articulated elbows. I am intrigued by how the springs may be rendered in Rhino. I am uncertain I will be able to fully take it apart in order to measure all the components in a way t

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