An 11-inch tall toy Mama Kangaroo (with Joey), augmented with human hands, and candy-colored fun fur - with a dark, Rembrandt-esque green velvet background.

Matilda

A discarded gold-pronged computer motherboard element is suspended in eco-friendly resin held in a bezel created from recycled sterling silver. Water-cast sterling silver discs and pale pink Coral branches that were reclaimed from vintage jewelry dangle from the bottom of the pendant as well as on each bail. The entire piece is lashed to a steel collar frame, made from the underwire of a surplus bra.

Reclaimed Coral and Motherboard with Water-cast Silver necklace

Cubical cage created with bakers cooling racks, now rusted, contains cluster of marble grapes, photograph of people at the seaside, tiny suspended photograph of a baby, antique color toy spinners hanging from the rack, face mask, many cobwebs. This sculpture has been exhibited in every Foot in the Door Show with elements added for each time it visited the MIA.

return

Artist's hand cut tiger eye cabochon set in a sterling silver bezel with sterling silver accents and chain.

Tiger Paw

This sculpture is a happy character standing with his arms stretched out, wearing a colorful costume.  He is having a Eureka moment and his eyes are popping out of his head.  His upper clothing is geometric squares and diamond shapes in green, black, and blue.  HIs face and hands are yellow.  His lower body is shaped like a jester costume in orange and red.  He is wearing a necklace and two bracelets on his shoulders.  He has many colorful buttons on his costume.  His head is shaped strangely and his eyebrows are big and golden.  His shoes are fun and are red and aqua.

The Pattern Juggler

A glass mosaic of a boat at a harbor during sunset, casting orange and purple hues across the sky. 

Painting with Glass

Grey rusted pieces of cut and bent steel creating a round intimate scene.

A Dom and her Sub

One inch rectangle cast glass slab wrapped into spiral circle.

Spiral

An organic wall sculpture made of aluminum and encaustic paint (beeswax) relating to plants and flowers.

Bloom

 A clear glass vase filled with approximately 1200 dimes which were retained from the artist's pocket change over the course of ten years.  A paper ribbon around the inside of the vase reads "Ten years ago he began to save every dime; ten cents times ten years, mementos of moments reflected in the smallness of one thin dime.  He knew life could turn on a dime but didn’t know the stories that would come, stories of family vacations, of family reunions, of patience, of divorce, of court dates, of first dates, of theater, of coffee, of bread and milk and eggs, of music, of the day he got his dog, of the day he lost his job, of the days he followed his dreams, stories of new friends, of travel, of graduations, of new clothes, of funerals, of wine, of art, of books, stories of loss and stories of love, stories remembered and stories forgotten, stories of a decade of a man’s life because he saved every dime."

Dime Line

An artist's book made up of a laser-cut acrylic maze filled with steel bearings and wrapped in thin foam, set in a square piece of steel tube. 

Fabricated Labyrinth

A suspended kinetic sculpture made from red acrylic and brass wire that depicts a fish's flowing pectoral fin.

Pectoral Fin Study in Red

Maymaygwishiway Paddler

Four forged and fabricated small red and black lady bug sculptures made of steel

Lady bugs

a metallic gold thumb disembodied just above the lower knuckle, standing upright on a blank surface

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A 3 footed sienna colored wood turned bowl with ochre colored stripe at the brim and raw bark edging made of mesquite wood.

949 Mesquite

A 2 d glass white flower, red sumac leaf, 2 cattails, with grass pieces set into a piece of driftwood.

Glass Garden

This sculpture was made from an oak burl, the burl was cut to fit into a 12 inch cube. The flat cut surfaces were polished while the natural surfaces were charred with a torch, all surfaces were then oiled to bring out the grain pattern.

Lightning Downed Oak

A beadwoven box with six legs shading from cream to pink to red. The lid is a hexagon in the same colors with a brown band around the edge.

Kimono

This bowl was created from a casting (round plastic pail) blank and turned on the lathe. The unique characteristics of this bowl is the encapsulation of the Lichen which grew on the Diamond willow tree..

Lichen encapsulated

This sculpture consists of a King James Bible with three Spinosaurus teeth embedded into it, encased in an acrylic dome on a wood base with an acrylic stand. 

Facts Over Faith

This is a red brass necklace composed of large orange crackle agate rice and black onyx rondelles, nestled between byzantine weave section.

Byzantine Crackle Agate

A wooden box with a door. An animated figure has a foot on the threshold as if stepping in. Inside are images from a past Foot In the Door exhibit.

I got a foot in the door!

A shallow glass abstract art bowl was made from square layers of white, sea green and cobalt blue glass fused together with heat and pressure. It represents an ocean view on a beautiful breezy day.


Sea Breezes

a resin sculpture of a goddess wearing only her chains, and the adornment her rose, moon phase, skull, and lip tattoos.  

Licentious Nymph

A masked crouching  figure on top of a table/ altar. The whole composition is coated with thick black tar adding more texture and softening the contours of the sculpture.

Hope

SWIRLING SPIRALS IN A UNIVERSE OF YELLOWS, BLUES AND VIOLET PAINTED ON A SMALL WOODEN CHAIR.

SPIRALS

An iron casting of a crochet granny square

Granny Square

Little Shop of Horrors movie inspired "Audrey II" hand puppet. Anthropomorphized, carnivorous plant. Vibrant colors. Exaggerated features.

#mysteryseeds2020

Flor d' Luna   (Moon Flower)

A plush panda bear with the spiked ends of push pins pushed out through the fabric, covering the entire body of the bear. 

Matilda, 2018

Kay Kirscht