Jona8than Green Art and Other Things

Haven't wrote here in a long time. The usual from me. Never great with keeping in touch.

Instead of trying to catch up on the past few months, I think I rather just write of my current position. Which is sitting in my studio at The Banff Centre. Waiting for the refractory on my wax cast of a light bulb, it will eventually have the wax melted out and cast in bronze. A bronze lightbulb. It was intended for the ballast of a killick. Unsure if it will end up that way now. Going to slip cast a bunch of lightbulbs in porcelain and use them for the killick now I believe.

I have some other bronze pieces that I would like to do while here. I wonder if I will get them done or not. Always complications and delays. I would like to make a compass dial in bronze, but with its centre being of “North” orientation. A compass for the North Pole. I could make it in wood, but the significance of bronze seems better suited for it. Be a simple relief mould casting.

My wooden sextant is almost done, it has taken some time now and needs a few more little things to complete it. I have to complete the scope, do some more sanding and then stain it. It's not as big as I originally wanted, but it is sizeable. Could of been better made, but not bad for an amateur. It seems my work has been focused on items of anchoring and items of navigation. Holding and wanting to go somewhere. That seems about right.

I have a residency for September at St. Michael's Printshop. The ol'haunting grounds. I think it will be nice to get back there for a while, just churn out a bunch of etchings. Been aching for etchings lately. I have thought of putting in for a grant so I can do 2 months before my residency at St. Michael's – 3 months in total. That would be swell. I have to write a proposal soon. I have to pass in a final report even sooner.

Started a ship in a bottle, that is going slow. Haven't been spending as much time on it as I should. Hopefully will find some time to just work on it, when the sextant is out of the way.

You can see a theme emerging of course, a using and revisiting of nautical objects. I am unsure what the final outcome will be when it is done. As you have read, there are lot of things that will combine. Will try to write some more soon.