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A Little Money

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Recently, an artist friend said to me, “I just want to make a little money.”

The idea for this custom waterglobe / snow globe took that comment literally. There’s a tiny cash register, with steampunk detailing in the brass bands and tiny hardware, gear-tipped register handle, and tiny people sitting, standing and resting on the machine. But when you shake this globe, not only is there metallic glitter, but there are tiny dollar signs and tiny dollar bills swirling in the liquid when shaken.

Because, you know, it’s fun to make a little money.

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They Will Always Find You – (tip of the hat to M.C. Escher)

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Gravity is SO over-rated.

My first attempts at stairways involved figuring out how to break the perspectives forced on us so gracelessly by gravity, and create a tiny world that would have made M. C. Escher proud.

Not that I’ve been there, done that, because I enjoy the results, but I decided to branch out. Escher tended to use similar looking people marching endless up and down stairs. And I had a thought: what else would be cool if gravity was random and up/down could be different for each participant? What if you took the staircase idea and made it a little more science fiction?

So I give you this custom snowglobe, with a twist on Escher’s drawings: “They Will Always Find You.”

In the interior of the globe, wrapped in floating gold dust, “They Will Always Find You” — massive robots scour the twisting stairways looking for someone. We’ve seen the movies, we’ve read the books; it rarely ends with the smart but plucky human outsmarting the robots for long. Once in a while (War of the Worlds maybe), if you sit really still, they might pass you by. But then a sneeze or a cough, or the stair squeaks, and … “They Will Always Find You.”

Since the original sculpture is only 2.75 tall, I’m showing you the insert piece and three angles of the finished waterglobe.

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Indecision Waterglobe

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This is one of my favorite snowglobes as it was a departure from my usual designs. It features several tiny people who move slightly, but never get anywhere. Two men (nicknamed Norm and Al) are high above the world on a teeter-totter, but only bounce a fraction up and down. Another figure is in a circle that rolls slightly left and right, but always returns to center.

This waterglobe represents that moment where you are stuck between yes and no, off and on, up and down. Indecision can be a pleasant place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.

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Point of View snowglobe waterglobe

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Point of View is one of my series of waterglobes that are an obvious nod to Escher’s drawings. I have been intrigued by his drawings, which feature impossible angles and people walking on stairways at different planes. While Escher’s imaginary world is not possible due to gravity, in my sculptures, I realized that gravity is not the law.

By turning “Point of View” from side to side and upside-down, one can see the various viewpoints of the tiny figures walking on the stairs.

Point of View snowglobe, tiny figures defy gravity on an Escher-inspired staircase. Snowglobe, 2012.