New website and blog

Moved to new blog and website:

http://inaeent.com

LED and Porcelain Red Nighlight Feature

I'm honored to have one of my collaborative series of porcelain and LED nightlights featured in NightfallTeddies Treasury East: "Just GLOW"

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bde4d378de56d91afbdd037/just-glow

The treasury includes illuminated earrings, glow-in-the-dark soap and enlightening glass work.

LED and Porcelain Red Nightlight

collaborative lighting by Keith and Laura C. Hewitt

Etsy: April

One of my porcelain tumblers is currently included as a Related Item in the wonderful Storque article,"Keep It Weird: Rupture"
http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/keep-it-weird-rupture-8093/

and my lithographed Wolves in the Cathedral platter is included in the intriguing selection "Etsy Finds: Forbidden Love"
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-forbidden-love-8086/

I'm honored to have a pair of my earrings selected for torropipi's marvelously noir Treasury East: Dusk Till Down
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bdc530d87808eef23fea9ea/dusk-till-down
Treasuries are temporary, generally expire in a couple days.  If you miss seeing torropipi's treasury, check out her unique and enchanting handmade jewelry from Croatia http://www.etsy.com/shop/torropipi

Steampunk Mother's Day

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I'm honored to have one of my ceramic bowls currently featured at Lilly's Workshop:  The Steampunk Mother's Day Gift Guide.
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1000 Bottles of Solitude

I decided to make a couple miniature bottles for glaze testing.  "A couple" became "a few" then became "many".  I originally called them 100 Bottles of Solitude but changed the title after completing 200 with endless permutations still in my head.  Ultimately they have taken on a life of their own.

 Selections from the 1000 Bottles of Solitude

I consider the bottles three dimensional sketches and the entire series a sculptural journal. I particularly enjoy using random events (dropping, throwing or shooting) and domestic items from my daily life (spark plugs, forks, bones), as this allows me to distill that moment in time. Taken out of context and made permanent in high fired ceramic, they become compelling in ways I hadn’t planned, expressing the melancholy, whimsy, despair, absurdity or preciousness hidden within the mundane, the common and the every day.

And yes, I’ve read 100 Years of Solitude. I didn’t like the book, I do like the title.

Detail images of a few of the bottles:

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"Solitude is unAmerican."  Erica Jong

Pierced Drawings

Pierced Drawing No. 1

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19 x 26".  Pastel and ink on paper.  The first in a series of ten drawings of piercings.

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  Pierced Pear

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14 x 20". Watercolor, aquarelle and colored pencils, pastel.  The last of a series of ten drawings with piercings.  I don't know what inspired me to do the first few pierced drawings nor have I thought of anything clever to say about them post production.  Toward the end of the series I started poking the stainless steel ball piercing into anything sitting around simply for the absurdity and ended up with the Pierced Pear.   

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"I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say. It's nothing any more to have a beautiful stock body. You see those cars that are completely stock cherry, right out of a dealer's showroom in 1955, I always think, what a waste."  Tyler Durden (Chuck Palahniuk), Fight Club

Playing the Deaf Card

Playing the Deaf Card

3h x 8w x 7d".  Wood box found in dumpster; leather, hearing aids, dried lynx ears, tarot cards.

Playing the Deaf Card, detail

Inside box:  hearing aid batteries, tarot card, computer print, leather, dried lynx ears.  

Inspired by my legal deafness.  I used to mention my hearing impairment comfortably and offhandedly, to let people know I wasn't ignoring them, on drugs or a complete dummy.  In recent years it has become so politically loaded that I now uncomfortably and only after much thought mention it, weighing whether it's worth it or not to Play the Deaf Card.

"The consolation of deaf people is to read, and sometimes to scribble."  Voltaire