Monthly Archives: August 2024

1″ x .75″,  found objects
I’m horrified to see that the days are already getting shorter, and school starting yesterday gave me clear proof that fall is here.  The cold is tough, and the flowers drying out is rough, but the part of fall that really gets to me is losing the light.  As the evenings fade and then the afternoons fade too, I fall into a funk.  This pendant includes a glow-in-the-dark watch hand, which I hope will stretch the glow of daytime for a few extra hours into the fading fall nights.

1″ x 1″, found objects

Wouldn’t it be cool to have wings?  I think most people imagine soaring above the earth, watching the world go by, but for me they’d just be practical.  I’d be able to skip the traffic, zoom from one place to another, manage all the pick-ups and drop-offs and meetings and workshops with no sweat.  I’d struggle in the winter, what with the cold and the snow, but I think I’d still give them a try.

1″x1.5″, glass and found objects

I’ve been on Cape Cod all week, waking up to the sounds and colors of the ocean, and hearing the calls of seagulls all day.  Although teaching a mosaic class has stopped me from spending full days at the beach, it’s been a beach-filled week, and I’m sad to see it ending.

.5″ x 2″, found objects

There was a mural in Allston when I was growing up  that I absolutely loved.  In fact, I think it’s still there. Though faded now, it shows windows on a large brick wall, and through each window you can see a scene inside.  Cats, people, couches… there’s another similar mural on Newbury street with portraits of stars in the windows.  And in both cases, the windows are false or boarded up.  It’s just an imagined life inside.  Here in the US, unlike in the Netherlands, shades are drawn as soon as it gets dark, and you have to imagine what’s happening inside other people’s homes.  This pendant shows empty windows, ready for you to project your imagined reality, and a central window glowing with bright amber light.