King of the Sea redux

I wanted to build a more literal interpretation in an islander direction.

King of the Sea

A few years ago I saw this carving in a Vancouver gallery. It was called King of the Sea by Aubrey LaFortune. The carving represents a Shaman. It was about 3 feet square and if I had 6K to drop for anything at the moment, it would’ve been mine.

Swinger

Swinger is one of my bigger windows at over 2 x 3 feet. It was inspired by a muerto streetwalker I have. If I find it I’ll take a picture of it and post it. The thing I love most about the muerto is her pink yarn beehive hairdo. I had some salvaged pieces from a red robe so I cut them down into the beehive and halter top. The background pieces were ruined from brick cleaners spraying acid on them. They were tossed and I rescued them for this window. I painted her head and body along with the miniature skulls for her hair. The dangle earring is made up of 3 glass jewels plated with painted pieces behind them. One fun window. Swinger-2009

Crushed Glass logo

The logo I designed for my "Glass Studio". Big surprise that it features an octopus.

First public showing

Yesterday I hung 10 windows at the Dunn Bros. Coffee shop on 34th and Hennepin. Mostly tropical-themed windows all shown for the first time publicly. Kind of fun to see them up out of the basement and hanging together. photos by Alan Wilfahrt

Neptune Lamp

A friend asked me to create the panels for this lamp. Since he liked cigars and I liked marine life I had Neptune passing cigar smoke with the help of red squid to an octopus doing the same on the other side. Neptune lamp-2005

Pele- The Hawaiian Goddess of Volcanoes

I was given a salvaged painted face and a one-of-a-kind sheet of Fischer glass to build a window out of. The frame is one of those crude carved Mexican picture frames that are usually found framing a velvet painting. Pele 2008