chainmail

i spent a couple of days working on chainmail bracelets with our intern at Organic Metal Gallery. this requires sawing coiled wire to make hundreds of little jump rings, stringing a line of them onto a clothesline like contraption, and then linking the next rows all together with pliers to get this pattern.

it feels so good to see each row finished as i work.

i think i want to do some more elaborate chainmail type bracelets for myself in the future. i'll try to get on that...

a new pamphlet

i just discovered that my piece: dilapidated dreams is featured in the ontario craft council's awards and scholarships pamphlet since i was one of their award winners last year. i was hoping my work would be featured in at least one of their new pamphlets. i'm going to stop by the OCC and see if there are any other publications with my work or me (sometimes they depict the artist) inside.

once i get my hand on a copy i'll scan it and post it on the blog.

here's the piece again:

Back to Basics

there's one more show that i hope to get into...for now.
it's Back to Basics at the SFA Art Galleries in Nacogdoches, Texas. They did an awesome catalogue the year before for their show Abundance with a preview seen here, so i know that they take their exhibits extremely seriously. i'm really excited about the possibility of having a group show there. The call is pretty open so I've applied with just because you feel it doesn't mean it's there, you try to take the best of me, as well as these:


there's nothing here but what's here is mine, cast and fabricated bronze, oxidized, 2009
photographers: Tarek Badr and Brendan George Ko


dilapidated dreams, fused copper, sterling silver, thread, 2007
photographer: Tarek Badr