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 portrait of a past lover once malleable as clay; cast in cold bronze--hard as memory.

James

A cream colored sculpture of a man tortured by a sense of confinement screams silently. His eye sockets, empty, like his suffering soul. The clear box he lives in, an almost invisible cell, suffocates his aspirations. 

The Mind Confined

A repurposed wood bowl that has been ebru marbled with acrylic paint. 

Ebru Marbled Wood Bowl

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 pine tree as found in Minnesota made from welded steel on a textured metal base, finished in nature steel finish and 3 coats of lacquer.  The branches are made from different sizes of fine finishing cut nails and the trunk is made from a larger cut nail, with the top portion being a 100 year old cut nail. 

MinneA pine tree sota Pine Tree

A picture of two bronze faces looking at each other; off set from looking directly at each other. Both faces are sitting on a slab of stone that is floating on blown glass feet. The stone is surrounded by water cast bronze.

Have you ever met a normal person? Did you like it?

Flor d' Luna   (Moon Flower)

Eccentric cubic sculpture with random short protuberances and an overall painted black-and-white hand-drawn geometric pattern.

Tennessee Tuxedo

A small glass sculpture of a winged red dragon with a white head and feet, standing on a base of gray/green twisting abstract shapes.

Red Dragon

Sculpture of a red car made out of cardboard and plastic bottle caps sitting on a street.

Dream Machine

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

A former cube of bronze, hammered & scraped into a softer form, drilled into to insert one mesmerizing deeply red stone eye, balanced upon a contradictorily slim stem above a singed hardwood block base.

Mayari | Moon

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

Lady bugs

A yellow stained glass sunflower stands up off of a mosaic mirrored background. The clear beveled glass center is painted with a Fermat spiral of sunflower seeds and reflects onto a background created from a CD, for a luminescent rainbow effect.

A Fermat Sunflower

An iron casting of a crochet granny square

Granny Square

Sterling Silver one inch round bead containing a bright red orange transparent Mexican Fire Opal inside. The pierced cut out  Design has flowing openings that allows light to illuminate the opal from all angles. The opal glows brightly when the light hits it. The textured silver emits a soft muted glow.

Toby's Bead

One inch rectangle cast glass slab wrapped into spiral circle.

Spiral

Chased copper depicting two Scilla flowers. One flower featuring green patinated leaves with a blue blossom the other leaves and flower in natural copper.  The Scilla are planted in a knotty Oak base.

Pretending Nature

A bronze sculpture of a nude woman holding a bird in her hand, with birds in her hair and birds flying around her.  She is mounted on a rock from the Mississippi and nestled into our expansive strawberry patch.

The Strawberry Queen

A black framed, glass-on-glass translucent mosaic of a small light brown songbird, in a copper wire nest, located amongst newly budding leaves, at the "U" crotch of a tree. There is a background of a milky blue sky.

CovidArt 2020 "Stay the BEEP Home!"

Wood carving of the artist's head from found materials.

Self Portrait No. 2

This is a glass mobile, with 3 objects: the red & clear Alpha, a multi-colored star or flower shaped symbol for the Big Bang, and a white and clear Omega.

Fire and Ice: I Am the Beginning and the End

This is a mixed media piece humorously expressing the panic at diving in to new and possibly dangerous experiences.  A bird fearfully watches as a group of fish playfully enjoy the water below. One fish invites the bird to join in the fun but, well, he would prefer to remain a bird out of water. 

Jump!

Red Flowers bursting out of green spiked foliage.

Red Spring

Cast aluminum abstract sculpture partially painted with red, silver and white ink. "Formation" evokes the feeling of a naturally occuring and unusual gelogical formation. 

Formation 

Single sheet of Paper folded with cuts, to show effect of negative spaces

Negative Spaces - Designed by Eric Gjerde , Folder by Ramdev Wudali

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

Bloom

HPX:  Hyperbolic Paraboloid Extension, An Anticlastic Brass Form

This 3-D brass sculpture started as a flat sheet of 18-gauge brass.  To turn it into a hyperbolic paraboloid or anticlasitc form, the corners are forged over curved stakes along the North-South and East-West axes in opposing directions.  Convex curve along one axis, concave along the other.

The "X" of the HPX describes the way the hammer moves metal from the center of the square outward.  The edges are pulled and stretched and eventually extend enough to meet at diagonally opposite points.

This double curvature shaped shell appears in architecture as a saddle roof.  Despite its rather modern, artistic appearance, this anticlastic shape is highly practical for a roof because it cannot hold water.  To make a synclastic type of form, on the other hand, the axes are moved in the same direction like a bowl or roof gutter.  And, yes, synclastic forms can hold water.

HPX: Hyperbolic Paraboloid Extension

A bronze sculpture created from a live model who held the pose where her body created the shape of an "O" for three hours.  People typically exclaim "Oh!" when they see the sculpture and understand how it was made.

949 Mesquite, 2020

Tom Teller