TrudaLakingGlatz's Blog

Metamorphosis, transition, change, tension.  These are small drawings, averaging 6 x 8″ in pen, ink and pastel.  More new work can be seen on my website in the Mixed Media and Ceramic sections.

Garage to studio conversion:  window installed in one of the garage doors.

The concrete floor was uninsulated with no vapor barrier so we ended up raising the floor  1 1/2″ to insulate.

Raising the floor meant raising the existing doors.

Chance Collection.  A retractable measuring tape that quit retracting.  Selection of toasted concrete drill bits that were good for about 40 holes if you resisted pressing on the drill, 15 if you didn’t.   Bit on the farthest right was used to stop up the insulation to floor glue bottle.  And a regulator which didn’t, though it did for about 12 years.  The diaphragm went out approximately 5 minutes into a 20 minute oxy/acetylene cutting torch job.   It was on the oxygen tank.  It is entirely possible to complete the job by having someone you thoroughly trust with quick responses use the on/off valve to keep the oxygen carefully adjusted.  I’m not recommending this, mind, but I know it’s possible because guess who got that job.

No studio, no internet but a world of drawings.  8 x 6″.  Pen, ink and pastel.

Four wheeler trail through oak ferns.

Recommended:

China Mieville.  The City and the City

Iain M. Banks.  Transition

Paul Auster.  Invisible

Alain Robbe-Grillet.  Two novels:  Jealousy and In the Labyrinth

Lizzy Oxby.  Extn.21

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros.  Streetcore

Beginning of conversion of 2 1/2 car garage to new studio.

Leaving Las Fairbanks Round 1.

The Volcano.  April Fools Day, 8:58pm.

“High Wildlife”?  Hmmm.

Recommended:

Kathe Koja.  Under the Poppy and Skin

Clutch.  Strange Cousins from the West.

23 Nov 2010.  Second day of Interior Alaska’s Icepocalypse.

23 Nov 2010.  I made three bottles in stoneware.  While they were still wet, I put them outside on the hood of my truck.

23 Nov 2010.

24 Nov 2010.

24 Nov 2010.

24 Nov 2010.

27 Nov 2010.

27 Nov 2010.  The three lumps are the bottles.

This book is a compilation of quotes and deliberate misquotes put together by me using the sources named above ^.

My friend Val harvesting seal in the Arctic.  Image copyright:  Val.

Drying duck wings.

An owl scopes out my chicken yard.

One of the last rides of the season.

Portrait of my ear and hearing aid by Adam Ottavi Schiesl using 19thC ambrotype photography process.  He also photographed my water tank, outhouse and chicken yard fencing using the same process with spectacular results.  Image copyright by Adam.

“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”  - variously attributed.  Deleuze quoting Picasso quoting TS Eliot.  Or maybe TS Eliot and Picasso had the same thought at exactly the same time and Deleuze is quoting either of them or both.  Or perhaps….

Thanks to Tatiana, my website is back up. Having owned and maintained my own website since the mid90s, it was a bit strange having someone else work on it. (“in” it?) She did a lovely job balancing between what was possible and my antipathy for gizmos, widgets, fancy pants programming (“Is that Flash on my site?!”) further exasperated by my Linux and Unix OS. Currently I am scanning and GIMPing my way through a 16 lb box of slides of my work, what remains after I threw out all the copies, damaged slides, work I don’t even remember doing but has my name and handwriting on the slide case and more work, or rather messes, I can’t believe I spent time, money, film taking in the first place. Which, fortunately, considering the mundane and repetitious labor involved in reformatting, amounted to trashing most of the slides. Successful images, or unsuccessful images of old work that has sentimental value, are being posted on the site. Sometimes I just post some new digital images, too.

“Machines define what you can do.” –William Gibson, in his rather disappointing Zero History.

I’m honored to have one of my collaborative series of night lights included in NightFallTeddies Treasury East “Just Glow” The treasury includes illuminated earrings, glow-in-the-dark soap and enlightening glass work.

Led and Porcelain Red Nightlight

collaborative lighting by Keith and Laura C. Hewitt

One of my porcelain tumblers is currently included as a Related Item in the wonderful Storque article,”Keep It Weird: Rupture”
http://www.etsy.com/storque/etc/keep-it-weird-rupture-8093/

and my lithographed Wolves in the Cathedral platter is included in the intriguing selection “Etsy Finds: Forbidden Love”
http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-forbidden-love-8086/

I’m honored to have a pair of my earrings selected for Torropipi’s marvelously noir Treasury East: Dusk Till Down

http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4bdc530d87808eef23fea9ea/dusk-till-down

Treasuries are temporary, generally expire in a couple days.  If you miss seeing torropipi’s treasury, check out her unique and enchanting handmade jewelry from Croatia http://www.etsy.com/shop/torropipi

I’m honored to have one of my ceramic bowls featured at Lilly’s Workshop:  The Steampunk Mother’s Day Gift Guide.