The Bishop’s Desk (2011)

In 2011  I pulled what seemed to be a small wooden writing table out of a snowbank where it had been discarded. I discovered, after I had dragged the filthy wet thing inside, that it was damaged beyond usability. Only the turned legs, the sides, the four-space drawer, and the base of tobacco-colored wood (beach, I think) were actually intact;   » More

Well of L (2011)

I prepared a large “composite” image — an amalgam of three distinct views — of the WoL project for yet another competition. The plan and perspective-northeast incorporated into this illustration are somewhat modified versions of earlier images; the smaller distant-perspective-west between them is a new creation, from a slightly different point of view than the first silhouette rendering in 2010.   » More

Plesiosaur, Pt. 2 (2011)

I dislike abandoning projects in which I have invested so much time and energy, as long as there seems to be any virtue left in them. With no access to fabrication equipment, a foundry, or power tools of greater precision than a small drill press and a metal-cutting miter saw, it seemed to me that I could nevertheless treat this   » More