Ithaca Unitarian Church photography show

Ithaca Unitarian Church show, Ithaca, NY.

The show in the parlor at the church on the corner of Buffalo and Aurora streets is up until May 26th. On Sundays, entrance to the parlor is available during the church coffee hour, 11:30-12:30, with easy access from Buffalo Street or the garden entrance between the church and the parsonage. During the week, the parsonage is usually open between 9 and 4 and Mark will guide you to the parsonage.

Hope you have a chance to see my work if you are in the Ithaca area. It contains flower and sculpture montages, Cornell montages,some macro photography of flowers, and selection of both canvas and fine art paper prints.

I would definitely appreciate any feedback you would like to share about pieces selected for the show. Also, are there subjects you would like to see as montages?

Copper sculptures

I have worked with flexible copper tubing and copper pipes for several years, creating both garden art and art for inside my home. Many of the pieces are in my garden, but some at in those of colleagues who commissioned to have them done.

Many of my sculptures reflect my admiration of Picasso's paintings and sculptures. I saw one of his cement sculptures of three faces in Dallas, Texas. Using that as a template, I produced a sculpture that included ferro-cement partly embedded in the ground and partly enclosing copper pipes. The three faces were then constructed of 60 feet of large flexible copper tubing. The price of copper now is three times what it was when I first started this type of sculpture.

Copper tubing can be treated with acid to produce a blue patina. It can also be heated with a propane torch to burnish the surface.

The attached sculpture has blue patina and is embedded in a cement block for support. Would love to have comments.