Life Drawing

Since I have no work space for sculpting for the time being, I figured I’d work on my sketching for a while.  I tried a life drawing session at  Artspace in downtown Raleigh. It costs eight dollars. You just show up anytime between 7 and 10pm, leave whenever you like. I was delighted to see [...]

The (art) show must go on

…and it is, until next June. Town of Cary staff, CVA volunteers and Paris Alexander (center in the green fishing hat) labor in the hot sun on the Cary Town Hall Campus to place a marble base on a concrete pad in preparation for the installation of Paris Alexander’s limestone sculpture called “Jacob’s Ladder” in [...]

Vandalized in Vain

Here is a video of the aftermath of an act of vandalism on a sculpture during the mold-making process. I’m sad, embarassed and disappointed that this horrible thing happened to the sculpture Ahmed Fadaam was working on.
“Welcome to the US, where we have this very precious, special thing called “Freedom” we’d like to [...]

Broken with my own hands

  Usually I feel some kind of pain if my work is destroyed, but this one I broke myself and felt nothing. I held it in my hands and broke it into pieces. Then I fired the pieces in my kiln. Why would I do this? Why would I fire the broken pieces and save [...]

Litmus

We had a fabulous time at Litmus on the night of the reception for the annual nude show.
Here is me with my  friend and fellow sculptor, Charles, right before he headed off to another party.
The show seems to be growing and the quality of the entries is getting better every year. There were also [...]

Should you, Could you, Would you Paint the Wood?

My guardian poodle should be out there biting the ankles of my enemies however, he prefers to dabble in fine art instead.  Here’s an installation work of Pood’s called “someone rang the doorbell right after the front door was painted” .
I’m so fortunate to have such a talented companion here for inspiration. Pood is also [...]