Rusty Treasures Redux (aka Ya Finally Get a Pic of a Finished Piece)

Well, recently I showed you a picture of a big rusty treasure hanging out of the bead door of my kiln, but in my usual way of working, I got distracted and zig-zagged back and forth between projects. Yep, I zig and zag between projects, doing a little bit here, getting stuck there, going back to something that’s been waiting on the counter for weeks or months, getting unstuck on that one, forgetting about the current one momentarily. **sigh** It’s what works for me creatively, but it sure does sound inefficient when I write it!

Sometime after I wrapped some ivory glass on the end of that big rusty treasure, I got distracted by the idea of making a glass waterfall of sorts to hang from a different piece of rusty goodness from the junk bucket. Turned out that piece wouldn’t work, but this old hinge ended up making a great backdrop to hold the glass “waterfall”:

This “glassfall” of faces still stymies me creatively. The physical piece of art is one of my favorites, and I am so excited that it might be going to a friend’s new gallery (I’ll get you links to that when she gets online). So, why do I say this piece stymies me creatively? I say that because I had to post the pictures without my usual thoughtful description of the meaning I find in a particular sculpture or bead. Instead, I basically said, “I don’t know how to say what I want to say about this one.”

Zig. Zag. Back to that other project. I wrapped some ivory glass around the bottom of this giant screw/bolt/whoknowswhatitreallyis, then I made a head and a torso to attach to it. Zig. Zag. Had to wait for some suitably “aged” looking wire to be scrounged from the back of hubby’s friend’s old pickup truck. Here’s what I have waiting for me now:

That’s what I’ve got for ya today. Come back next time for, well, for whatever has zigged and zagged its way to a finished project

AngelinaBeadalina enjoys scrounging treasures to use in her sculptures. You can read about it in her blog and see pictures in her BeadArtists.org gallery pages, as well as check out the ones that make it to her Etsy shop.