And all I have to show for it …
A fragile glass heart, encompassing red foil details, rises above the fray of broken fences, chains, the gentle swirl of soft gold dust and industrial refuse.
Another day.
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Celebrating Snow Globes – on Display
It’s a big honor to have our snow globes displayed in a museum!
Five unique snow globes created by Camryn Forrest Designs are on display for the rest of November and all of December as part of the “Celebrating Snow Globes” exhibit at the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, Mass. This is about an hour’s drive from Boston, or an hour’s drive from Providence. If you go there, you’ll see an entire collection of snow globes, both antique and modern.
Here’s what is on display from Camryn Forrest Designs:
Airship Voyager, Uncharted Skies, Sacramento Steampunk Society snow globe (courtesy Collection of Doug Hack), Ray Gun One, and Circular Logic snow globes.
And bonus: the Airship Voyager snow globe is the featured globe on the front of the Sandwich Glass Museum December brochure. So cool!
Dances with Clouds – Balloonship snow globe
Where would you go, and how would you travel?
Dances with Clouds … a battered airship carried by a hot air balloon, drifting high among the tatters and wisps of clouds. Sometimes you write a story and create artwork which illustrates the tale, enhancing the details.
And sometimes, as with “Dances with Clouds,” the artwork writes its own story without a word needed.
Sailing from one adventure and toward another, what story does it tell you?
The Bomb (Hide in Plain Sight) snow globe
This snow globe is da bomb.
When I’m digging through a bin of costume jewelry at a thrift shop or yard sale, I don’t expect to find a tiny bomb among the rubble of rhinestones, silvertone seagulls and tarnished beads. But just like in real life, you never really know what’s around the corner, or lurking under those authentic “made in China” pukka shells. We don’t suspect a “bombshell” before it’s dropped in casual conversation. We don’t expect to go from digging for diamonds to dealing with destruction in a flash.
So this bomb is front and center in a snow globe, touched with a shimmer of dark dust, and surrounded by what may be harmless shapes: towers and cones and flying saucers, planets and satellites. The shape of the bomb is seductive, its pose is alert but inert. For now.
Do you prefer danger to be out of sight and out of mind, or to be hidden in plain view?
Radio Silence – vacuum tube waterglobe
A simple machine, or a curious invention, with a repurposed real radio vacuum tube as the focal point.
This tiny sculpture features a battered barrel of fuel, copper coils, measuring devices and assorted gears, bathed in a glittering shower of sooty dark dust when the globe is shaken. The custom base is wrapped with a canvas belt and rows of brass and metal details, and finished with a twine-tied corset closure.
As the title implies, it remains silent, but oh, the stories it could tell.
Knight Moves — black snowstorm waterglobe
May we present to you, the elusive double snow globe. Inside the glass globe, with a curious tower of metal and glass, a tiny chess piece waits, wearing blinders made of watch gears. Rising in the globe is a second clear tube, filled with shimmering crushed crystals which are black as coal. When the waterglobe is shaken, a storm of black dust swirls in the liquid, but a second storm occurs inside the clear tube as the denser black pieces come to life within.
On the exterior of the tube, a knowing face smiles serenely, never betraying the secrets inside.
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