The crew of 5 in my studio. I made this shot from the studio door while the guys were preparing the next piece to show me sitting at my main work table (which you can't see).

My studio is all of 11' x 13', plus storage shelving around the perimeter.

The "How It's Made" crew that filmed me 3 weeks ago should be finishing up a three week tour filming in the States in a day of two, after which the memory cards used on the trip get handed over to a "Card Wrangler". For my show alone, they used about 7 cards which are the size of a thick 36mm slide, each holding 256g of data. Remember when entire hard drives held only 250g? Each of the cards has only 14 minutes of recording! This will be edited to a 4 min, 40 second spot.

After the Wrangler combines the data for each show the editors take over. A draft video is sent to me for verification that each segment is placed in the correct order and that propriety info is not accidentally included. Next is a telephone conversation regarding the voice-over that will accompany the visual. I don't recall if I get to see the finished product before it is aired - I was a bit tired by the time we spoke about this info after filming was completed late at night!

How often have you been misquoted in media coverage? Almost every time I suspect. I'm grateful this time I am able to verify the story!

It will probably be a few months until the spot is aired. Of course I'll post the date when I know!

Posted to fb on November 29, 2015:

Last week was the filming for the "How It's Made" TV show for the Discovery Channel. It was fun! and exhausting!

The crew is based in Montreal, Quebec, a 9 hour drive to my home studio. They arrived at 7:30 am, worked all day except for a lunch break and left at 11:00 pm !!

I wanted to do nothing the next day but had my annual physical appointment. Doc said I looked tired!

Posted to facebook on November 13, 2015:

Good News!

3 days from now, a film crew from the Discovery/Science channel show "How It's Made" will spend a day in my tiny home studio filming me for a spot on the show!!
I'll post here, and everywhere else, when I know the publish date.
Woo Hoo !!!!

Thank you Teresa and Nick!

Thank you Teresa and Nick!

"They Know the Language of the Waves on the Sea" looks perfect in it's new home!

Ice Lace

December 10, 2011:

Can you see the ice?  Through an odd combination of snow, freeze, melt & refreeze last night's snow turned into lacy ice.

This shape concept will surely show up on one of my basket sculptures some day soon!

First Snow

What a beautiful morning!  The first snow of the winter in my part of Michigan fell last night.  We got about 6" which is not insignificant.  Trees are bending deeply due to a thick coat of very heavy wet snow, especially the evergreens which provide wider surfaces where more snow can accumulate.  Wet snowflakes bind together more than dry snow, so even the one inch diameter leafless deciduous tree branches are supporting up to 2" of snow.









Many aspects of the First Snow scenes are inspiring:  the contrast of very white snow against dark tree trunks and branches, the texture of tree bark highlighted by white snow skimming the raised surfaces, the bulbous surface of snow blanketing the wetlands thus changing the shape of the plants it covers, the tracks in the yard from deer and rabbits, the sparkle of ice crystals in the snow as sunlight is refracted through them, the silver-blue color of the unfrozen lake as it reflects sunlight and the silver-gray unfrozen lake when clouds block the sun….  So many things to tantalize the senses!  Even the smell of pristine, fresh air coming south from the arctic.

I want to weave a white winter sculpture.  White upon white, with silver and thin black lines.  Maybe with sky ice blue.
Contact me if you are interested in this piece and we can discuss the possibilities.