A few weeks ago, Seth Godin wrote a keenly insightful post about Joni Mitchell’s album, Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter. That’s…
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Our Pain
There is a nostalgia movement going on in American and British culture for which I’m 20 years too late. People…
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Get in While You Can!
If you’ve ever considered taking one of my workshops, you’d better sign up for one of the last 3! I…
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The Meaning of Conceptual
The following are fighting words: All art is conceptual. That is to say, all art has some meaning behind it,…
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The Superpowers of Turtles, Masters, and Madonnas
Of all the Ninja Turtles…uh, I mean Renaissance masters, It’s Leonardo da Vinci that calls to me, not Raphael, and…
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Problems for a Polymath
Once of the challenges I have discovered is that being a polymath is fine if you’re a man and an…
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The Super Yacht’s Etched Screen – Complete
The etched screen for the bespoke, 69 meter, super yacht was the initial commission I received from the interior design…
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Become Part of the Giving Voice Project
Giving Voice is a multimedia ebook and print book about the connections we form. We’re frequently told that life and success…
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Lining the large cluster domes on panel #1 of the Turtle Screen
When things have to be mind numbingly, exhaustingly, painstakingly perfect, my hammer is ready. More to come…
The Eyes Have It
These few seconds are a tiny fraction of time in the reality of planishing the eye of one of the…
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Hammering from Side to Side
The Turtle panels continue! Working the metal from both sides. You might be surprised at the tools.
The Mallet Switch
Catch that slick ambidextrous mallet switch? A must when this many months of hammering is required. Puffing out panel #4…
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Hammering My Heart Out
Architectural metalwork by Victoria Lansford incorporates ancient techniques utilized on large scale projects for contemporary spaces 1 of 2 projects…
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Back into Stardust
From stardust we are fired and scattered, aggregated and evolved, only to spend our limited existence seeking to aggregate, create,…
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Breathing in the Past
Smell is the sense most strongly linked to memory. While I’ve always had a wildly accurate long term memory (I…
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Meta Schadenfreude
For Mothers Day today, my son gave me a gift certificate from my favorite garden store, my husband gave me…
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