One inch rectangle cast glass slab wrapped into spiral circle.

Spiral

Disposable tray with coffee cups and found objects like doll arms, spiky ball wearing doll sunglasses resembling the COVID-19 virus and city buildings made from scratch by artist.

Architects' Java With Visitor

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

Glass Garden

A darkened copper form with smooth, almost reflective surface started as a perfect square of sheet metal that was forced into a doming-mold that was too small for it, causing a partially domed-effect while also creating folds and crimps in the metal where it responded to the impact. 

FORCED/FORCE individual

A round, copper lapel pin with an abstractly cut silver layer on top. The left side has organic curves while the right side is more angular.

Duality

A necklace consisting of a brown, curved triangular metal base piece, covered with stacked cupped metal discs in blues, browns and copper.  

Reef Necklace

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

Oval shaped vessel of crocheted with copper wire over narrow copper strip.

Copper Vessel

This is a wood carving of Leo standing in the wind with his comb-over hair being blown off his bald head.  He is holding a walking staff and looking off in the direction of the wind.

Leo's Bad Hair Day

a wood construction of  a concert sized ukulele body with the top removed, dark walnut wood with light colored bracing material.

Concert Ukulele body

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

#mysteryseeds2020

Figural sculpture of an abstracted cheerleader in violet hues.

Vessel 18

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

Dream Machine

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 miniature sculpture of a 1990's-era city phone booth. The phone booth is dirty, rusted and the light over the phone box is turned on.  

Come Here, I Want You (Phone Booth)

A sculpture of cast aluminum flowers finished with vibrant India ink in shades of yellow, green and red arranged in amber glass vase

Still Life for the Anthropocene

3d modeled skull using Zbrush, rendered in Blender 2.8

Yorick

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

Tiger Paw

Red Flowers bursting out of green spiked foliage.

Red Spring

The seated female figure has her legs out in front of her with her hands by her side.  The bronze color is a golden tan.

Girl Seated

Square glass platter with Green Adventurine glass, clear grass with pale green stringers and frit. Small center square of Gold iridescent

Green Quilt Block

This steel cube has a large swoosh cut out of the side, starting at two opposite corners and cutting a large arc deep into the cube.  Inside the cube is a ball suspended as if it is riding through the cut.  The sculpture is made of steel, and textured in patterns radiating around the cut.  If you like this description, I would like to let you feel it’s inorganic shape.  Contact me through metalcraftersus.com and I will try to arrange a free session for you.

Negative Cube

Three pieces of blue gray handmade paper are standing in a slumped position. They are like old trees that have turned to rock. The paper is made from family rags. I made and entered this same piece in the first Foot In The Door show in 1980 when I was just beginning to make handmade paper. 

Cenolith

Turned bowl with natural split from knothole on side, copper wire stitches with turquoise decorative beads

Made Whole Again

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

round black soft sphere, made from paper, open at the top

Silence

Squared wood relief carving of four Chinese script characters, two on first row, two on second row. Raised cuts of each character are highlighted with dark rubbed oils, noting accenting side boarders of rippling designs framing the lighten grayish background of horizontal carver's cuts.

All Are Equal Under the Heavens

Non-binary/ gender variant human figure laying on barrel of upside down pistol, their foot just out of range of trigger. Rooster sits on butt of gun. The human figure is wearing a neck tie which they are adjusting. It represents an exploration of gender. Made in cast bronze.

Self Loaded

A sculpture of a simple house, split in two, that is opened up to see the inside.Inside the house is a strike anywhere match,.

Untitled (domestic)

A wood carving of a Common Loon, painted with Acrylic paint.  The loon is in floating orientation

Common Loon wood carving

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.

Spiral, 2020

Juris Plesums