This series is an experiment with and image out of my sketchbooks where we decided to sandblast the type and add some airbrushed color after. This is the peeling of the frisket created from the scanned sketchbook page.

The piece post sandblasting/pre firing in the kiln. A pretty nice size...

The final piece

This was a failed experiment that never made it to the kiln for firing based on the same image from my sketchbook as above. The type was going to be fired as a black line but the black paint kept peeling up when we tried to remove the frisket. We determined that it would have been best to silkscreen the black line then fire it. Next time...

Paderborn Cathedral in Germany was a short walk from the studio apartment I stayed in at PETERS STUDIOS while overseeing the MTA/Rockaway subway station project. It's mainly from the 13th century. Amazing organ, choir, stained glass, crypt and gates.

These images are these gates that were all around the base of the cathedral going into various alcoves. They were incredibly striking as the light from outside streaming in to the darkened cathedral really helped to contrast and create silhouette shapes that enhanced the illusion of perspective. Up close you could see that they were painted with great detail. They really illustrated the ideas they propose as an overall experience.

Post-war Baroque style window from The cathedral. Apparently Baroque windows employed a great degree of white or transparent glass.

Art for the MTA Subway Station at 36th street Rockaway Beach. The art will be painted and fired on glass blocks by artisans at the GLASMALEREI PETERS studio in Germany then installed as facing walls in the station sometime this spring. I leave tomorrow for Germany to oversee the translation of the art to the glass. Each glass block wall is about 30feet by 8Feet.

detail North wall

detail South wall

Schematics for the MTA project

Art for a KIND LINES a gallery show and online auction to benefit SURF AID. The surface was created by local surfboard shaper Rick Malwitz (malwitzsurfboards.com) and given to 23 artists to create an image upon. The photos don’t really do the piece justice as the surface was like a fine paper. I treated it as a sculptural object and worked in the round on it. Details of the piece below.

detail #1 from KIND LINES art

detail #2 from KIND LINES art