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Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show

If you know me you know my distain for cords of any kind showing under desks, bookcases or anywhere. I go to great lengths to hide them, people have asked me to come to their office to hide their mass of computer cords. On the home shows they find a beautiful home overlooking the bay and say what a wonderful view it is... and there is the power pole massed with cables right in the way. While we were in Mexico I noticed there was a jumbled power pole on every block. I remembered the paintings of New York streets highlighting the hundreds of Yellow Cabs crowding the street scenes. So I had the idea to photograph the power poles with all the jumbled wires going in all directions and create art out of the one thing that annoys me the most... well that and squirrels. 

In Photoshop I created layered images, rendering the background buildings in a paint technique and faded the image back highlighting the poles and wires. Local vehicles were added as well as people. Just a fun project that took a very long time to produce.

Individual prints are available and can be grouped in 2's, 3's or all 4. Frames and matts are included for that Mexico color scheme.

Mexican Power Grid No. 4

Tunes of Many Colors ©

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Punkolin ©

assemblage |əˈsemblij|
noun

Assemblage is an artistic form or medium usually created on a defined substrate that consists of three-dimensional elements projecting out of or from the substrate. It is similar to collage, a two-dimensional medium. It is part of the visual arts, and it typically uses found objects, but is not limited to these materials.

My assemblages explore the possibilities of combining worlds, saving lives and changing intentions. Upcycling the old and giving new life.

The curving shape and sensual beauty of a brass horn still exists even after it falls from the stage. The well-worn guitar retains its grace long after the earthly life of the instrument. The instrument is resurrected with an infusion of love of an artist and the logic of nuts and bolts and gears and circuit boards.

Guns receive a transformation with a dressing of technology—both old and new. In essence, turning swords into plowshares—changing destruction into beauty.

There is no end of life for the broken and bruised. The resulting assemblages tell stories and represent unique new personalities, well-equipped to embrace a new future.

I started with the computer components but soon discovered that everyone was drawn to my Steampunk musical instruments and the way cool gun collection. 

Click on images to enlarge. Instruments do not play, firearms are disabled.​

Time to Fiddle Around ©

Childish Tunes ®

Trombone Simplified ©

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​​SHOWROOM

Fluted Punk ©

Calling for a "G" String ©

Mexican Power Grid No. 2

Trombone Extraordinaire ©

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Edison Lamp

The Squirrels Wiil Be Happy

Brown Bess Revolutionized ©

Steampunk Singer

Fluted Tubes ©

Mexican Tunes ©

Time  for the  Dulcimer ©

Cornet #3 ©

​3rd Place,

Round Rock Arts

Sculpture Show.

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How I Came to Lose My Head ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts
Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show 

Available Through Echo Gallery

"Calling all Bugles" ©

Married Together ©

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Techie Tunes ©

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Selected, Round Rock Arts
Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show 

Golden Cornet ©

Time for Discussion ©

Available Through Echo Gallery

Dark Tunes ©

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Selected, Round Rock Arts Born, Died, New Life Show 

Mexican Heirloom ©

​Not for Sale​

Pump Punk ©

Melancholy Tunes ©

Fiddling Around Looking for My Bow ©

I Shot My Eye Out! ®

​Available Through Echo Gallery

Mello Cello ©

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Child's Play ©

Donated to Charity

​BIO

Fluted Mauser ©

Available Through Echo Gallery

Hard Rock Circuitry ©

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Copper Big Bang ©

Not for Sale

Asian Tunes ©

CONTACT

Lil' Danal' Boone ®

Downhill Upgrade ©

Not for Sale

5 Strin... 4 String Banjo ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show

CREATIVE

Looney Tunes ®

Stretch Neck Guitar ©

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Fluted Colors ®

Viogear ©

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Available Through Echo Gallery

Homage to Dimebag Darrell ©

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Silver Cornet ©

Blow Torch

Selected, Round Rock Arts

"Love in Monochrome" Show

Punk Tunes ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts Dimensions Show

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Steamy Tunes ©

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Remembering the "Radium Girls" ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts Sculpture & Photography Show

​Available Through Echo Gallery

Electric Surveillance ©

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Selected, Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2018

Electric Short Comings ©

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Gear Gun ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts Reuse-Recycle-Reduce Show

"Four Dead In Ohio" ©

Uku-Techie ©

When Will It Stop? ©

Selected, 2018 JoMar Visions Art Excellence Juried Competition

Available Through Echo Gallery

Best of Show - Round Rock Arts 2018 [imagine] Show

Steampunk Jewelry

This One Won't Kill Students ©

Steam Lamp ©

Not for Sale

Member | Visual Arts Alliance

Photo Manipulation Prints

Mexican Power Grid No. 3

Selected, Round Rock Arts Transformation Show

Watching You ©

Electric-lin ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts

"Love in Monochrome" Show

Looking at You Kid ©

Selected, Round Rock Arts Dimensions​ Show

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Steampunk Hattery

Steampunk Sewing

Member | Texas Society of Sculptors

Arborphone Lamp

Mauser Upgrade ©

​Not for Sale

Selected, Round Rock Arts

Dimensions Show

Tunes of Brass ©

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Mexican Power Grid No. 1

Electric Tunes ©

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Tunes of Medusa ©

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Selected, Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2018

PURCHASE ART

"Peoples Choice Award" Round Rock Arts [imagine] Show 2017 

Guitar Punk ©