Wednesday, June 4, 2008

THE CRADLE




I love this cradle designed by Paul Quinn. This is the base prototype completely peg joined except for the rockers. Cradle mattress is standard bassinet size and works until they can pull themselves up to standing.

Sunday, May 25, 2008

NICOMATS!



I've been making these 2 sided collage placemats, as presents, since 2002. My father liked them so much he gave me a web-business as a gift. Something I couldn't return for another size. A use it or waste it type present, so I formalized the business calling it USABLE ART, and posted the mats on the web.

I sold locally in farm stands and cheese shops, a few small boutiques carried nicomats and then I decided to direct a movie and my mats, and by that time lampshades and postcards as well, went on the back burner. In 2005 I received a phone call from a woman who curated art exhibits for John Jay College in NYC. she had eaten on my mats at a friend's home and called to offer me an exhibit of my work. I thought she had the wrong number.

I had a 2 gallery show at John Jay in February of 2006 an event which now allows me to refer to my work as art.

Since then the nicomats site has been closed, though I receive regular queries about them and where they can be found. So ... here are some of the nicomats line. I will post more regularly and they can be had by custom order. Though I am directing another film and the collage art part of my brain is on hiatus only in the selling.