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CZL
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Sat Oct 25th, 2008 02:48 pm |
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Mr. Two Bearz, I have a daughter living in Vegas, now .
I have been looking for an excuse to visit her, may
be this could be it. Let me know what you think.
Love your name , just not enough Zeez in it. CZ
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CZL
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Posted: Sat Oct 25th, 2008 02:49 pm |
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Mr. Two Bearz, I have a daughter living in Vegas, now .
I have been looking for an excuse to visit her, may
be this could be it. Let me know what you think.
Love your name , just not enough Zeez in it. CZ
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joseph2bears
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Sun Oct 26th, 2008 04:02 pm |
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Hi CZ. How about 2bearZ? Would that help the identity? You are a character and I love ya! But most of all I love and respect your work.
You don't need an excuse to visit your daughter. All that takes is love. If you love her, get up and go!
If you are in Vegas April 1 to April 5, 2009, definetly visit the South Point Hotel for the 15th annual Glass Craft and Bead Expo (http://www.glasscraftexpo.com). There is only the educational program Wednesday and Thursday, April 1 and 2. You may want to visit Friday through Sunday when the exhibit hall and art gallery are open.
I promise you Charlie, it will be a different experience. In the Gallery of Excellence you won't see any Church windows. But you will see a lot of new work, including a lot of fused glass, sculpture, and quite a variety of glass objects d' art, as well as stained glass.
If you do attend, look for a 30" round panel on its own artistic stand in the center of the gallery. The piece will be titled "Cosmic Singularity" and it will blow you away. I've been working on it for 15 months now and plan to have it completed in time for the show. Dennis Swan is currently grinding the first lot of bevels for it, and the last lot is nearing completion to send to him. Every piece of glass in this panel has been composed and fired in my two kilns. I have created effects in glass that have never been seen before.
I have challenged Dennis' creativity with beveling, from his illusion bevels to his pregnant bevels. The illusion bevels incorporate two-sided color effects, and others use variable facet widths. While you may have seen glass with bubbles between two layers, you have never seen "blister" glass. My blister glass has bubbles on the surface, with one color bubbling up through another. (It only took 20 experiments and two months of effort to perfect that technique!) Then there is the "Night Sky" background glass with its stars, yellow suns, red drawfs, and comets (another 2 months and 17 experiments to perfect!). And I have finally succeeded in perfecting precious metal diffusion in glass. I am casting small billets of clear crystal, introducing gold, silver, and copper powders and firing them well above the metal melting temperatures. Molten particles of metal sink into the crystal in random swirling paths leaving behind traces of the most brilliant colors you have ever seen as the metal atoms diffuse into the glass. Within the glass the metals seem to have a "magnetic" attraction when their random paths get close, producing concentrations of intense color. The effects are beyond description; you have to see this glass!
I recently had the opportunity to share a sample with Michael Dupille and seek his advice on many of the problems I was having in trying to perfect my techniques. While Michael couldn't really help with the problems (because no one has ever attempted this) he did get really excited about the color effects.
I have had to go to alumina-based refractories and full-containment molds to finally succeed. Even at that, the molds are a single shot use. At the temperatures I am working at, the glass has the consistency of water. When metal powders are introduced the chemistry changes and the glass becomes VERY aggressive eating everything in sight. The silica-based refractories we use in glass work just dissolve. The stuff eats through mullite kiln shelves and right through fire brick. I've sustained a lot of kiln damage getting this far. This stuff even attacks the alumina-based refractories, but I am able to fire a billet before it eats all the way through the mold wall. There is a lot of cold work to clean up the billet after it is extracted from the remnants of the mold. High temperature ceramic kilnwashes and boron nitride paints all help, but are not really effective in containing this witches brew. But the unique color effects of this glass are worth every difficulty!
You will see this glass for the first time in Cosmic Singularity. I hope you will have the opportunity to see it. I think I am definetly pushing the boundaries in new work. I just hope it all comes together in time for the show. I also have hopes of showing this work at the AGG Conference in Buffalo if you miss it at Expo.
All my best to you, Charlie. If you do get to Expo, find me and I'll buy you a cold one! or two!
--Out there in the Milky WayZ, Joseph 2bearZ
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CZL
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Posted: Mon Oct 27th, 2008 03:10 pm |
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Thankz for the invite, I will see how things are going by then.
I am on a big job with Crosby in Texas, and they are kinda
bustin my hump. They are very conservative and seem to want a very
representational stuff, and I am thinkin Van Allen belt stuff.
Fractals baby, fractals. They also said there is not enough evil
in the window. I said just tell um who drew it and that should
cover the evil question. I also have a problem with my faithful old dog,
she has lymphoma, it is only a matter of time I guess I never
felt more helpless. What ever time there is I won't leave her
till I have to let her go. So if her condition permits may be.
Thankz for the interest in my work and my possible attendance.
The loneliness of the long distance runner. CZ ps do a healing
dance for my beloved friend, and companion, Buddah, please.
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CZL
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Mon Oct 27th, 2008 03:10 pm |
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Thankz for the invite, I will see how things are going by then.
I am on a big job with Crosby in Texas, and they are kinda
bustin my hump. They are very conservative and seem to want a very
representational stuff, and I am thinkin Van Allen belt stuff.
Fractals baby, fractals. They also said there is not enough evil
in the window. I said just tell um who drew it and that should
cover the evil question. I also have a problem with my faithful old dog,
she has lymphoma, it is only a matter of time I guess I never
felt more helpless. What ever time there is I won't leave her
till I have to let her go. So if her condition permits may be.
Thankz for the interest in my work and my possible attendance.
The loneliness of the long distance runner. CZ ps do a healing
dance for my beloved friend, and companion, Buddah, please.
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joseph2bears
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Posted: Mon Oct 27th, 2008 04:05 pm |
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Hi CZ. We'll smudge some white sage to purify and drive away the evil spirits from your dog, not your windows.
Speaking of dogs, how about Cujo? Now there's an evil spirit for your window. I don't want to seem unfeeling, but you have one dog in the National Cathedral. If it comes to pass you could enshrine another in Texas. That's a loving and sympathetic thought, Charlie, not an evil, uncaring one.
I don't have fractals in Cosmic Singularity, but I do have a Fibonacci Series spiral. And I'm way out beyond the Van Allen Belt in deep space! ...Well, deep something anyway. Evil? Cosmic Singularity depicts the utter chaos and destruction of nature as the universe is torn asunder and is sucked into a Black Hole. But on the other side the seeds of new life and order are planted. It is the ageless theme of despair and hope as seen in nature and experienced by man. The same theme I suspect you are playing with.
Have fun, Charlie.
--Joseph 2bears
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