Granted

Brett Smith, The Suns of Cudd (2011), Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Brett has worked hard all year, and the installation is complete.
Here is one of the pieces in the show.
Why not go to the MCAD Gallery tonight for the artist discussion?!

Wednesday, October 12, 6:30 p.m.

finger licking

Four more days until we close on our house! If anyone so much as sets a finger on those copper pipes again, they will get some unexpected brass knuckles. I will continue to evolve these knuckles into bigger and better things, but for my first pass, I'm pretty happy to be wearing this other knuckle around my pinky.
Cross your fingers that the next posts will be about home renovation!

Things have been a little crazy around here. We are attempting to buy a house, settle down, open up a grand sisbro studio, and really dedicate ourselves and our extra time to cranking out the goods. So so close to close, then someone stole all the copper pipes in the basement!

We'll keep posting though!

I made a silicone mold of those knuckles and put my wax injector to use, SO EASY! Next, I mounted all those knuckles onto a wax tree. Last night, I was finally able to caste them into metal! Pictures soon..

Knuckle nuggs

I finished with the next step. I carefully carved out each finger into a little knuckle gem, and hollowed each one out using a heated wire, and some wax carving tools. I want as little wax as possible in these shapes so when I cast them, I will not need as much metal, and they won't be so heavy.

chuckles

As an adolescent youth, creative freedom of the self conscious reigns. I chose the unsuspecting knuckles to be the recipient of my embarrassment. I always thought I had the wrinkliest knuckles. I would go to measures such as always keeping my fingers slightly bent, in order to stretch all those wrinkly little joints out. Being older, and a little more secure with these hands, I wanted to create my next piece of jewelry from this part of my body which gave me such horror. This past week, with so much Christmas and New Years vacation, I cast my knuckles in wax! I am thrilled with all those creases and crevices!

This one's dedicated..

To the one, the only, Brett Smith. The guy who puts the bro in sisbro, the one who puts the big in brother, and the dude that puts the B in worker. I want to take the time to congratulate Brett on being a 2010 recipient of the MCAD Jerome Foundation Fellowship!! He is one of 5 selected from 322 applicants. Well deserved brother! Now he just has to figure out what to do with the money (besides buying a tanning bed). I'm sure whatever it is, it will be BIG TIME! Congratulations brett!

you've got mail

With no more large looming projects, we can get back to the little things.. Because that's what counts, right?
We just shipped a red hand from our webshop to the bustling city of London. Touching new continents.

ALZO..Our knit tetrahedron lamps will be lit up and on sale at the MCAD art sale Thursday Nov. 18th, to Saturday the 20th. Fuel the economy, sisters, brothers and such.