Descending Ashtray

After thousands of years of erosion the petrified sand dunes in Arches NP have left some of the most amazing rock formations. So as in this digital world Descending Ashtray still stands. There is no wind and water in this world to erode the pictures or writing. Everything looks exactly as it did a year and half ago. Suspended in a vacuum of stored information. Where is it really? Somewhere among millions upon millions of Gigabytes of information. Suspended unchanging. There is only the delete and the update to affect its existence. With it we can delete and edit and reveal what ever we want to. Friendships, love affairs can be created and then erased at the push of a button. What can you trust? Things that are tangible, things that we can hold in our hand and touch. Or is it the information? Clogging, redirecting, shaping a new form of existence in the digital world.

Descending Ashtray last post 2/21/10

Rick Van Oel and I have been doing some restoration work at the Basilica. It involves gold leafing the dome above the alter and repainting several murals and stencil patterns.

This is after I have reworked most of the face. The hands still need some work.

Happy Fathers day, Dave!

It is good to be a Dad but it is also important to remember our Dad’s and Grandpa’s too. My Mom’s Dad just passed away recently and today we are going to have a memorial for him. I worked with my brother Eli and we made this urn to put his ashes in.

The whole thing is made from cedar (even the barn boards) except for the letters which are walnut. My Grandpa was a roofer and a rustic man, so we thought it was fitting to make him a house with wood shingles. The extension ladder moves up and down too.

This is a disc golf cart that I have been working on for a while and I finally got around to finishing it. It is designed so that I can take Ethan out on the course!

The big glue up!

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