An iron casting of a crochet granny square

Granny Square

A glass cherry tree with blossoms of pink before a background of yellow and green leaves positioned atop a two inch hardwood base.  A lamp.  

Cherry Aquari

A prickly chrome screw covered container with bulbous smooth firery-colored globs being forced out of It’s cracked opening.

Prick

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

SPIRALS

A multicolored oval sculpture with seven stone beads stitched with seed beads around the surface of a Lake Superior stone.

Seven Wishes

This  sculpture of an angel was created with things found in my studio during COVID lockdown. She has sheet music on her arms and book pages for her skirt. Handmade lace doilies complete her skirt. Her wings came from a bird that perched in the Christmas tree. She holds an antique stick pin that acts as a pinwheel ."Hope" signifies that we can find beauty and fun wherever and whatever the circumstances of life.

HOPE

A smooth rounded form of a bear in a typical standing posture with bulk concentrated forward over the front legs. The back hair has left un-smoothed to provide contrasting texture. Inlays, front and back, of inlace give some color contrast.

Ursus

Matching 22 inch necklace circling a 10.5 inch bracelet. Pink wire knit into a rope with freshwater pearls, pewter cubes, filigree end caps, and shepherds hook clasps. Each rope has a knot in its center.

Clutch Your Pearls

Figural sculpture of an abstracted cheerleader in violet hues.

Vessel 18

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

Copper Vessel

A sculpture of an owl, leaning protectively over a figure of a man with brown skin, laying on an elevated stone table, creating a shrine. Water pools at the base of rock columns below.

Reverence

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 small sculpture with a base comprised of a wooden panel raised by push pin feet with scaffolding of painted wood suspending a blue pamphlet over the base forming a triangular wedge that hovers over black rectangle of sandpaper.

My Levitating House

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

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 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 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

A small sculptural object screwed into the wall, made of a found wooden knob, surrounded by a crocheted metal skin with a purple lacy edge.

Index #2

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

One of a kind necklace of Peruvian pink opal, pearls, Swarovski crystals, and seed beads. Sterling silver box safety clasp with moonstone cabuchon.

Arial's Garden Path

A design of colored metal shapes using found objects. A vertical blue area bordered with orange and red-orange lines of metal attached with round head screws that make a pattern of dark dots. A small blue spring is held in place with an orange pipe in the shape of a ?. A big rusted white handle creates a negative space on the left side.

A Handle on Color

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

A small wood sculpture of a mushroom which is coarsely cut  out of a branch which still has  some bark on it giving the end product a rich coloration  which runs the gamut between dark and light brown. 

Quadriplegic Chainsaw (mushroom) 

Lilies

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

James

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

One inch rectangle cast glass slab wrapped into spiral circle.

Spiral

A red painted sculpture having symmetrical shapes with curved lines and flat planes.

Winged

A white 3 dimensional abstract ice mountain that appears to be opening and on right lower side of mountain hangs word free in space down vertically stating 'worry'. 

Untitled

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.

Granny Square, 2019

Emily Anderson