Another collaborative sculpture: this time with Jamie Abbott, my studio neighbor.  We are frequently in and out of each other’s studios and often discuss our work with each other.  We’ve often thought that a collaborative effort might be interesting because of the parallels that we see between our work.  We settled on a collaborative effort for Sculpture Is: 2017 In The Garden at Sierra Azul Nursery in Watsonville.

We started by thinking about forms that we are each drawn to, trying to recognize where they overlap.  But we also had to be careful to not veer too much in one direction–towards Jamie’s forms or towards my forms–because this is first and foremost a collaborative effort.  In the best of all possible worlds, we would each learn something new in the process, and see something through the other person’s eyes.  It’s the magic of collaboration…becoming tuned in to the way that another artist sees and thinks about the world.  We collected some photos of chrysalises because those sorts of closed forms would make sense within the garden setting of this show.

Like the post I did on another recent collaborative sculpture, I probably have too many photos in this post. But I like to look at process photos from other artists, so here are ours.  If you open any photo, you’ll get a captioned slideshow that starts from that point.

This show is still up for another month, and there are many wonderful pieces, so go take a look!