steel
May 2, 2012
A small, clay angel dangles from a branch at Lake Winona.
February 6, 2012
I've had a few people ask about my process for working with stone in mosaics recently.
Creating a mosaic with stone differs from other mosaic work mostly in the way that you cut the tesserae.
How I do it:
Disclaimer - I am not an expert, yet. I'm just telling you what works for me.
Most of the stone I use starts out as floor tiles. They run from 7/16"
to 5/8" thick and are usually 12" x 12" in size. Sometimes I'll get the
smaller ones, but there...
November 22, 2011
The Winona Arts Center, 228 E. 5th St., will be hosting its annual Holiday Sale of handcrafted works featuring 11 area arts/crafts persons on Sat., Dec. 3, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
July 31, 2011
Long ago (18 years or so), Big Man and I used to cruise around the countryside of Mankato, MN in his navy blue Ford Ranger. We didn't have a lot of money so we often went for rides just to check things out. One thing we discovered on these jaunts were lawn and house ornaments, most of which I hated. The most horrifying and objectional to me were monarch butterflies in pastel colors artistically arranged along the side of someone's house. They...
May 15, 2011
I confess. I did it. It was my fault. I did not act out of anger or hate. It was neglect and I am sorry. A photo of the victim is below. It is graphic and if these types of things bother you perhaps you should stop reading right here.
May 10, 2011
The women inside the kitchen of the Cochrane-Fountain City K-12 school feed hundreds of hungry children each day
Pots and pans clanged; refrigerator doors repeatedly opened and shut, as one particular high-pitched giggle rolled up and out from the Cochrane-Fountain City K-12 stainless steel kitchen.
That laugh belonged to Cindy Cieminski. Tying on a cartoon-covered apron, Cieminski hurried around the kitchen, helping prepare the meals for breakfast March 25, joking with co-workers about the laundry list of tasks ahead of them that morning, a smile...
May 5, 2011
Dealing with death as daily routine, funeral director and mortician Doug Penning reveals the reality of life and the processes following death at an annual Fawcett Junker Funeral Home tour to local students
The sign read “Private: Keep Out.” Doug Penning pried the sliding doors apart as the pungent smell of disinfectant poured from the room, tingling the students’ nostrils. A few stood at the front, next to a towel covered in scalpels, tweezers and surgical scissors. Others kept their distance from the steel embalming table draped in a neon orange sheet.
Usually, it would be just Penning and a corpse in the room, with an...
May 5, 2011
Several birds treated the steel of the bridge as an obstacle course with the cloudless blue sky as a backdrop; they weaved in and out of the steel girders in an almost reckless fashion
April 27, 2011
This past weekend was a 4-day weekend for us. I had Monday off and we decided to drive to Viroqua to check out the stone product manufacturer. I was looking for breakage and/or scrap...
They did not have much - it appears that the crush any breakage or scrap on a regular basis and they don't invite people to collect it. I guess it is a liability issue - no dumpster diving for stone scraps...
April 4, 2011
The Winona State University department of music will host the Percussive Arts Society Minnesota Day of Percussion from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 9, on the Main Stage, Performing Arts Center.
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