opening reception a huge success - and changes coming!

The Mystery art show opening reception was a huge success - we have a diverse collection of art dealing with whatever we see as Halloween, Mystery - and as I see it, Shadow (Carl Jung's Shadow is the unseen, disowned self which is translated into our fears etc). My shrine to the Shadow was completed for the opening - with the two quotes from Carl Jung and Edgar Allen Poe. I'm pretty pleased with it.

I took down David Richman's mosaic exhibit yesterday, leaving space for my next endeavor at my studio. In talking to an art coach recently, I have come up with a new set of goals that I want to pursue with my mosaic art. I want to start focusing on dream art exclusively (other than holiday gifts of course). My goal is to devote 24 hours a week to finishing "hypnogogia" and creating some other dream art pieces. Some will be wall pieces, some will be sculpture. The pieces will incorporate my fused glass pieces, reclamed glass, and of course some of my favorite glass tile SICIS. The other part of my plan is to start chronicling the creation of the dream art here in my blog. I will be posting pictures of the creation process. Once my shrine (Ode to Shadow) is taken down I will post pictures of it here.

my submission for the Halloween themed art show at Poudre River Arts Center

My submission is almost done - I have mosaiced a cube with a river running along the outside and mirrored glass on the inside. The inner part is what I'm still working on. So far it looks like it'll be a mosaic of soldered pieces with these quotes, maybe more, dealing with our fear of the Shadow, the unknown of the inner and outer world...

Deep into that darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering,
fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams
no mortal ever dared to dream before.
~Edgar Allan Poe

At first we cannot see beyond the
path that leads downward to dark
and hateful things - but no light or
beauty will ever come from the man
who cannot bear this sight. Light
is always born of darkness, and the
sun never yet stood still in heaven
to satisfy man’s longing or to still
his fears.
~C.G. Jung

Now to get a picture of it up here!!