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Masa’s Workshop

admin — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:08:53 +0000

Today I continued my tour to some of my talented friend’s work places. Me and my new friend Masaki, went to visit Masayoshi Oya in his workshop at Sockerbruket. This guy is a really talented ceramic artist with roots in Japan. He came to Sweden some years ago, to further educate himself in ceramic art. Check out his web page: www.masayoshi-oya.com

We got to see the new work for his next exhibition in Helsinki. Really nice cups and bowls in fantastic colors. Keep an eye out for his new stuff. It’s killer!

Peace out!

Black Badger Advanced Composites

admin — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:20:40 +0000

Today I visited my good friend James Thompson at his jewelry workshop in Kortedala. A really nice place for some really nice work. Check out his website if you like composites and jewelry. www.blackbadger.se He makes some really cool stuff. Anyhow, it was really nice to see where he hangs out and how he makes his jewelry. I also got to taste some really heavy duty workshop coffee. I’d like to visit him again soon.

Peace!

Mini-Nimis

admin — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 12:12:39 +0000

Back home from lovely Dalsland. I spent a couple of days there with my friends. I just had time to start helping them with one of the mini golf courses for their art history golf challenge. Their plan was to make famous pieces of art in miniature scale to use as obstacles for the mini golf, as i mentioned in my prior post.

My contribution, or sart of contribution, was Lars Vilks’s Nimis. Though I far from like all of his work, Nimis is a fantastic piece on a fantastic spot, at Kullaberg in Skåne. What also fit the Nimis way of working, was that i started building and someone else will take over the process of creating the piece.

Anyhow, I had a grerat time in Dalsland at Not Quite in Fängersfors. Thank you all!

Peace out!

Constructing miniature golf obtacle in Fengersfors.

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:32:07 +0000

Today I arrived to Fengersfors in Dalsland to visit some friends. They’re making a miniature golf corse with historical art pieces as the obstacles. It’s a very nice idea for a golf course. Miniature sculpture golf course. I love it. So tomorrow I’ll start to make a miniature version of Lars Vilks Nimis. Let’s see how it turns out.

They’re doing other stuff to. On the picture you can see Justin’s climbing sculpture. It’s going to be hit by a astroid any day now. I think it will be great.

Well, that’s all for today.

Peace out!

Krakens Lair

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:19:51 +0000

Going back to Sweden.

admin — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 14:27:34 +0000

This Friday we finished the sculpture symposium here in Greenwich. Around 20 artistis from all over the world contributed with fantastic sculptures that at this moment can be viewed at the Roger Sherman Baldwin Park in Greenwich, Connecticut.

My sculpture, which is untitled at the moment, was finished after a really tough week of welding and grinding. Getting the material five days to late, in a ten day symposium, doesn’t make things less stressful. I’m satisfied with the result though, minding the circumstances. I didn’t have time to make it exactly as I wanted, but I came close.

We had a great goodbye party friday evening, with dinner in the park, dancing in the Sundown Saloon until the closed for the night, meeting great Puerto Ricans with great sound system in their car, eating home delivered pizza on the sidewalk. It was fantastic.

The last two days we have been spending time here in Greenwich, hanging out with our friends. It’s always sad to say goodbye to great friends like this. I’ll hope we’ll meet soon again.

Peace out!

One day left…

admin — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:51:58 +0000

Today was a hard day in Greenwich. Started working at eight o’clock. Welding, welding, grinding, grinding. All day until six. My arms are a bit tired, I have to say. It turns out good though. Tomorrow is the last day and I really have to focus to get all finished for the presentation in the afternoon. I have a lot left to do but I think I’ll manage. Tomorrow we’ll see. Until then.

Peace out!

Great 4:th of July.

admin — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:19:52 +0000

Hola compadres! Yesterday was great. I got a lot done on the sculpture and after half a days work we went on a boat ride to see the fireworks on the Hudson river. It was magical. I could write a lot about this but I have to go out in the sunshine and finish my sculpture. Laters!

Progress with the sculpture.

admin — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 02:45:31 +0000

Ok, so today I’ve got a lot done. I’ve cut all my plates and started to weld them together. It’s actually quicker than I thought. Hopefully I’ll get some work done tomorrow as well.

This evening we had a lovely dinner with our host family. They cooked lobster, stake and corn amongst other things. It was fantastic. They are really nice to us and we couldn’t stay in a better place.

Tomorrow is fourth of July. The day of days here in USA. We’ll be able to work half of the day but in the evening there will be some sort of party. We’ll see what happens.

Peace out!

It’s on, and a whole bunch of other stuff…

admin — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 04:22:53 +0000

Holy shit. I will never forget this day. We got up really early today to go and get our material for our sculptures. First we went to get Jens’s stuff at a metal workshop close by, then me and Mary went to Brooklyn to get my steel plates. That was a trip I’ll tell you. We had to bribe union people, sweet talk police officers to avoid a fine and drive with an over loaded van to Connecticut to get what we wanted. The story is long and I can tell it to anyone that is interested. The importent thing was that i got the material.

The most difficult part though, was actually to get the plates of the van. They are extremely heavy and were loaded on the truck, by the bribed union people and me, with the help of a forklift and a traverse. They are five by ten feet, quarter inch steel plates. One week ago I didn’t have a clue what that was, but now I know. It’s heavy shit! Anyhow we cracked our backs and got the plates of the van with rolls of cardboard, ropes but mostly raw manpower. Or as we say in Sweden: vi svinade av dom.

All this meant that I got to start working on my sculpture today, only five days too late. I’m in a hurry so to say. I cut one of four plates and tomorrow I’m cutting the rest.

In the evening we had a great party at the boat club. A really good band played and they invited us to a jam session which was really nice. I already knew Jens was a good drummer, but Francisco surprised me with a being a harmonica phantom and Kent just ripped it on the bass. Lovely evening with lovely friends. Tomorrow work will continue in super madness speed.

Peace out!