New Summer Art

Today's blog entry is to showcase new summer season work. If you're on our mailing list, you'll likely be receiving an email with a link to this post. These new Poppets and other works are available on Ebay
or Etsy or both. There's a lot of new work, from dark and gloomy to bright and sunny.
You never know what I'll be in the mood for. It's funny too, that the work doesn't necessarily match the weather, inside or out. I've been taking lots of photos lately in the studio, for new 'nuts and bolts' info. Originally I'd planned to put these on the forum, but I'm looking into some more interactive formats. I'm open to suggestions to where we might move the forums. Or if you even want this sort of stuff... ? Anyway, despite the heat, there's loads of inspiration around. Go figure.


Strawberry Poppet and Flower Power Poppet on Etsy.
Our dissenting "WTF" Poppet is on Etsy.
Poppet Reads Alice in Wonderland on Ebay.
Poppet "Locomotion" on Ebay.
"Outside" is an open edition on Etsy and Ebay.

Mermaid is on Ebay.


Butterfly Car is available on Etsy.
"Spook" is on Etsy.

There's a lot of other new work you may not have seen if you haven't checked in for awhile. Hope you enjoy seeing it. We're working away, swimming, and contemplating the state of the desert, the rest of the world and reading like the autodidacts we are.

Poppets are watching. Outside. Inside. Silly Humans

Sometimes I hear people complaining about Wii and other game systems and virtual reality programs. I hear them say that people should get outside and do the real thing.
True, lots of people don't spend enough time outside and possibly, they're missing something that we take for granted.

Outside. True also, that I read an awful lot of science fiction. But it's not a huge stretch to imagine a world where outside is no longer an option---possibly for generations, possibly forever. In such a place, virtual reality will be viewed quite differently. In such a time, the meaning of reality will have to be reconsidered.

Can we truly imagine an Earth where walking on the beach isn't possible?

Nowhere is this possibility more evident than here in the desert. At the beginning of every summer we get a stark reminder of how uninhabitable our world could become, and of how fragile our environment is. We hang shades everywhere to protect our children, animals, plants. Many materials, like all plastics, can't survive for long in this sun. I'm not finished exploring this concept in my work. How could I ever be? It's a large part of my daily life, and that of my family and friends here. I know it's possible to get a chill in punishing heat of the star that gives us life and destroys us too.

For now, Outside comes awfully close to capturing this feeling for me.



Outside is available as an open edition on both Ebay and Etsy.

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Nothing is more healthy than asking questions and speaking out
against the things we disagree with.

We've created our WTF Poppet to remind us. Poppet carries its own
version of the maledicta balloon.

Poppets are always watching and sometimes, WTF is the only applicable and appropriate response. I'm keeping mine near the television, for when I watch the news, because, honestly. WTF?

You can find WTF Poppet on Etsy.










"Spook" is back, and even better, with a new 'tail' and angle so that in the right light, it seems to glide.
Spook is also available on Etsy.















And finally, a word from Gurtie, escaping into the shelf she's claimed.
....what word escapes me at the moment.
Got any ideas?




All that said, I'm taking the rest of the day off, (with plenty of sunscreen) to enjoy and appreciate Outside.