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	<title>Cynthia &#187; Glass projects</title>
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	<description>My life, my sculpture...and other things</description>
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		<title>The heck with it. Let’s play! (Part 2: Zen gardens)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 13:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us get into the art business because we love it...but it's possible to love it to death. You can get so serious and self-critical about your art that you maybe forget why you're doing it: Because it's so much fun. I realized last weekend that I was headed that way, fast.

And so for the next 48 hours I stopped worrying about being a grownup, serious artist trying to find my voice and instead had fun. I made a couple of glass samplers, an old project I used to love doing. It used up a bunch of glass scrap, reintroduced me to my inner child and did some battery recharging.
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		<title>The heck with it! Let’s play! (Part 1: Samplers)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had one of those days where there's all kindsa work you OUGHTA be doing, but your inner child says "The heck with it. Let's play?"

That was me last weekend. I finally carved out a whole glorious 48 hours to make art. Excellent time to shovel out the studio, fire a bunch of pate de verre test tiles, mix up a couple of custom billets, redefine some investment facecoats, repair the broken head of the gigantic nude on my sculpture stand so I can get her silicone finished...

The heck with it. Let's PLAY!]]></description>
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		<title>Will Vinton and a whole bunch of glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who know me well also know that I'm obsessed with animation. I've loved Disney and Looney and Hanna Barbera since babyhood. Yet what turned me on to computers and graphics and 3D and animation and all that stuff was a guy named Will Vinton. The idea that you can build your own world, your own stories, your own rules, well...that's a heaven that Mr. Vinton introduced me to, long ago.

So it was kinda jaw-dropping to meet him today, judging OGG's Fusathon glass creations. Nice guy.]]></description>
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		<title>Fusathon, good works, good fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 09:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday was a total hoot, made better by the fact that it was for a good cause. If you missed it, you really missed a lot of fun.

Yesterday the Oregon Glass Guild (OGG) held its annual Fusathon down at Uroboros' glass factory. We talked glass stuff, made glass stuff, watched other people make glass stuff, tried new ideas for stuff, bought stuff, ate stuff and sang stuff. (I took pics of stuff, too). By the end of the day, we were pretty stuffed.]]></description>
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		<title>The power of transparency</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 15:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm giving in to glass transparency right now, (weird, because I tend to sneer at artists who substitute transparent bling for a voice). What's utterly fascinating is the almost symbiotic relationship that transparent sculpture has with its environment. I want to learn to use that power in my work, and from what I've seen so far, it'll be a helluva challenge.

Sculpting with glass is, for me, an extreme exercise in controlling the viewer's eye. The artist directs the viewer's eye with all art, of course, but in other media that control is largely confined to the surface. A work's mass and volume are simply vehicles for presenting (or hiding) whatever the artist has put on the surface.

Not so with glass--you can send the eye anywhere you want in that volume; surface constraints only exist if you choose to use them, i.e., opaque the glass. ]]></description>
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		<title>Vitrus interruptus as a teachable moment</title>
		<link>http://www.morganica.com/bloggery/2010/glasswork/vitrus-interruptus-as-a-teachable-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much as I love to whine, I won't; I'm over my quota for the quarter. However, I'd just like to point out that I HAVEN'T SO MUCH AS TOUCHED A KILN CONTROLLER IN A MONTH!! Is there such a thing as glass cold turkey?

Still, it's given me some time to process the directions my work is taking, come to a few realizations about what I do (and don't do) well...and maybe make some course corrections. I think educators and HR people call that a "teachable moment," which is a whole lot nicer than, say, "screwup."]]></description>
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		<title>Billet plus mold equals &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember awhile back, when I was petting a huge shipment of glass? (And in my best non-denominational mode had included most all of the blues and greens sold by Gaffer, Uroboros AND Bullseye?)

For about two weeks, my house looked like the inside of a sapphire geode...and then all that glorious, sensuous glass billet was broken into chunks and melted into my molds.]]></description>
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		<title>Castuwhine</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What's worse than Castuary?* Castuary squared. What's worse than Castuary squared?

Obviously: Castuary cubed. I am in Castuary for three simultaneous firings, and it's driving me nuts. I've stuffed my own kiln to the gills, along with Hugh's kiln and Kat's kiln, as if I'm in some goofy and rather spendy race to see which spits out sculpture the fastest.

And it's teaching me a great lesson in the whole artist/show/gallery thing: Procrastination costs bigtime money and biggertime anxiety.]]></description>
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		<title>Back to work!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm SUPPOSED to be working. Instead, I'm petting crystal, which either means I'm a glassist who's finally gone over the edge...or that the nice delivery man just dropped off a big honkin' Gaffer shipment.

Lordee, these things are gorgeous. How are you supposed to actually chop them up?]]></description>
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		<title>Weekwhacker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cynthia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does there seem to be so little time when you're facing the future, and so much when you're looking back?

It's mid-February already? How did that happen? Eeek. I've got to get on the ball. Now. I've got a show at Guardino's in late March/April and another, OGG's Spring Glass Gallery, at the end of April, and I'm not nearly ready.]]></description>
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