The small glass bowl helps to frame and give scale to this exquisite bone sculpture.

The small glass bowl helps to frame and give scale to this exquisite bone sculpture.

The sculpture itself is slightly larger the photo, even though it appears to contain as much coiled energy as a life-sized figure might contain.

Fillière © 3 15 2018
This extraordinary find, a vertebrae from a pot-roast, emerged pretty much as is from the carving up of that roast at a dinner table long years before I had decided to choose a vegetarian diet. The butcher’s part in the shaping of this one-armed Winged Victory Venus is evident in the exquisite chops he made in the trimming of the roast on its left side, its lower front facet, and provide a sitting base, all with accidental and absolutely impeccable placement.
My addition was to recognize the perfection of the shape and form of the piece, and to limit my intervention and claim to ownership to the addition of texture by scratching the bone and rubbing pigments into the scratches. It is a found art masterpiece that sits easily into the palm of one hand.


Fillière © 2 17 2018

Outdone, out-spun by winter’s viral horde my only plan to find accord. With such excess to mediate and meditate, find awe and wonder in, and wait, and wait until the crystal rage, December’s cast is made and set for skin and bone … and spade.


A bathroom window ledge cut-glass object, simple, light filled, grand.


Version three has many of its own poetic charms.


This is a black and white variation of the same subject as yesterday’s post but the angle is different placing the geometry of the tiles as just about a perfect foil to the free flow of light and petals; and the b/w treatment removes the sensuality of the colour which in turn seems to formalize the content as being all about feelings & grey scale aesthetics.


Vase with a rose cutting sits on floor tile in a patch of sunlight; camera snaps from very close above it. Simple setup. Complex result.


Skylight, how ready with lavenders, greys, blues, and almond touch of sun
