badassshave
badassshave
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| Member | May 27, 2012 (14 years) |
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Bio
My work explores the relationship between everyday objects that we continually use on a daily basis.
Since I was a child I have been fascinated with my father taking his old ceramic cup, lathering up his face, and using his double bladed straight razor to shave his dense whiskers. I would watch in awe when he shaved. As a treat he would lather my face use his pointed finger and wipe off the foam, giving me a shave. In the 1980 I started lost wax casting by taking a class at the University of New Paltz, NY. The first project was to make 6 cast spoons for the semester. This is where I fell in love with the power of the torch and pouring molten metal.
Previously when casting I used plastic, wood or I carved wax. Now I take two different waxes, melt them together, pour it on a cookie sheet. When cooled I start my pieces from a flat sheet of wax which looks like chocolate. For me a doodle turns into a three dimensional sketch.
What starts out as a simple object becomes functional, fashionable work of art for routine daily rituals. My work is manly, joyful, pleasurable, usable, and occasionally meant to be humorous!
It’s all about finding the hidden potential in life’s everyday objects. I decided to do something that nobody has done before, change the way an industry thinks about daily grooming rituals.
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