Ene and Aili chat it up with local residents on the shores of Lake Merritt. We’ve been spending a lot of time roaming the shores of Oakland’s Lake Merritt as we enter the research phase of our public art commission for the City of Oakland’s Lakeside Green Streets initiative. Our project is to be integrated […]
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Deep Craft Atelier Week 2
Click here to learn more about Deep Craft Atelier, a pop-up store at Storefront Lab. Kids love Lawrence labianca’s toy boats. (© www.hanskwiotek.com) We spent another lively Saturday hosting Deep Craft Atelier for the second of three weeks at Storefront Lab in San Francisco’s Mission District. Guest Chef Cal Peternell of Chez Panisse grilled delicious […]
Deep Craft Atelier Week 1
Deep Craft Atelier Opens at Storefront Lab
Click here to see more images of Deep Craft Atelier at Storefront Lab. I’m so excited to open Deep Craft Atelier to the public tomorrow, Saturday, 10-4PM at Storefront Lab, 337 Shotwell in San Francisco’s Mission District. It’s been a fun and challenging week making product on site and getting the space ready so I […]
Tsuru Patina
Click here to learn more about Deep Craft Atelier, a pop-up store at Storefront Lab. After receiving a bright patina with dark recesses, the bronze is ready to be waxed. One of the greatest challenges working in bronze is having to manipulate one medium, like clay or wood, to achieve a desired effect in another, […]
Deep Deck Developments
Click here to learn more about Deep Craft Atelier, a pop-up store at Storefront Lab. I designed a portable, adjustable-length hole-drilling jig for mounting trucks to decks. I’ve been having fun making my first production run of Deep Deck longboards in Jupiter, my hydraulic press, whose crushing force shapes camber and concavities in veneers of […]
Tsuru Progress
Piero prepares to hoist the sculpture into position. Ene and I finally got to see the fully assembled crane sculpture for our Tsuru Project. Once again, Artworks Foundry has done a masterful job brazing the sculpture’s bronze skin around a superstructure of welded, stainless steel tubing. We’ve decided to give the bird a light golden […]