Full scale bar cart on casters with miniature "back bar" as the "drawer front". Frame is industrial in style with square tube steel framing. Rusted patina'd panels enclose the cabinet and drawer sides. Cart top and lower shelving is all solid black walnut with a natural oil for a rich finish. Other materials include LED lighting, salvaged metal and vintage watch face, frosted marbles, and miniature glasses and bottles. Inspiration came from the vintage James Joyce back bar in Baltimore that was shipped from Ireland.
38” wide x 23-5/8” deep. Overall height is 37-1/4”

Inspired by the iconic kitchen of Julia Child. Steel furniture and appliances welded and shaped into miniature replicas of their full-scale counterparts. Includes vintage wooden box, copper plumbing parts and copper mesh, brass escutcheon pins, and handmade paper books. Glass and cast metal place settings from other artisans.
12" tall x 20" wide x 9.5" deep

Miniature room made of welded steel with an office theme set on steel rails within a weathered steel table frame and under a thick glass top. All miniature books are handmade to create a custom color palette of autumn leaves. Other materials used include bicycle spokes, rusted/heavily patina'd farm tool fragment and jewelry findings.
19" wide x 40" long x 24" tall

Bookcase within a book! Library sculpture could be stand alone or a bookend. A full scale rusted steel open “book” revealing a miniature bookcase. The book "pages" are made of vintage newspaper print plates. Handmade mini paper books with miniature accessories line the miniature shelves.
8.5" tall

A miniature vignette of the classic television show set within a vintage mid-century modern wooden desk drawer. The iconic artwork and furniture, such as the flat file cabinet and the Mondrian-like back wall, re-imagined in steel and copper...in miniature. The warm grey steel of the instantly recognizable "Mike Brady stairs" complement the weathered and rusted steel which represent the stonework of the fireplace and built-in planter. Materials include cold rolled steel, rusted/heavily patina'd steel, wood, mid-century modern wood drawer, live air plants, jewelry chain, wrist watch parts, found key, earring and a metal clothes pin. Glass bottle and pottery vase from other artisans.
19" wide x 19" tall x 7" deep

I am working on a series of six vignettes. Miniature library scenes from movies, television and literature. This one is a combination of scenes from the Twilight Zone episode called "Time Enough at Last". A bookish bank teller just wants to be left alone to read, so he locks himself in the vault every lunch hour to do just that. While in there one day, a nuclear bomb deccimates the world outside. Safe inside the vault, he is spared. After wandering around in the aftermath, he encounters books tumbled down the public library steps. He exclaims "time enough at last"...

Borrowed Time / Borrowed Books – vignettes of iconic libraries in miniature

Are books disappearing? Or is the importance of books disappearing? Some people are proud of the fact they don’t read books, or even much of anything.
Is time disappearing? We surely seem to run out of it or LOSE it a lot. Where does it go? It doesn’t fly.

Books slow that feeling down, squelch that feeling of lost time. They calm, they educate, they clarify, they create symbiotic worlds in which we can learn about ourselves, others, the past, the future…endless possibilities.

Libraries - a place of mystery, fear, excitement, joy, sadness, or punishment…
Books provide the guided details while our own minds complete the picture. We are thinking. Nowadays we are given too much and our ability to process the information is diminished. Bombarded with noise. Everything is spelled out and we are practically told what to think when we hook ourselves up to the electronic or televised world...

Libraries are the opposite, places of calm and travel beyond the wildest imagination.
There is NO limit

Don’t let these invaluable places and objects disappear. They inform the future and remind us of the past…good or bad.

This is the second in a six part series of libraries represented in film, television and literature. This vignette is a combination of scales in which the Victorian parlor is depicted in Ray Bradbury's book and Francois Truffaut's 70's movie version. A three tier bookcase becomes the various levels of a Victorian parlor and a woman's forbidden library in the attic. Again, a play on scales with classic books on the upper and lower shelves, while a miniature bookcase is revealed on the upper "attic" level. This is the forbidden library in a not too distant future when it is illegal to read or own a book. Reminiscent of Stasi led Germany and the current assault on education and culture as we know it. Libraries are losing their significance. The middle tier is the miniature vignette after the "firemen" have discovered the library in the attic and have thrown the books over the railing - this is just before the house is set afire. A powerful scene turns the power around when the woman takes out her own match, taking control from the "firemen" awaiting to make an example of her.
The scene is a one inch to one foot scaled miniature made of steel, copper mesh, paper books, a marble, vintage keys from Nuremberg and a child's silver spoon.

Pick a classic novel to read on the loveseat in front of a roaring fire. Glass top is approximately 14 inches x 48 inches x ½ inch thick. Overall height is 36 inches. Materials include mild steel protected with an oil based sealer, glass candlesticks, wax candles, paper books, copper mesh “carpet” and “fireplace screen,” and vintage newspaper print plates.

BadAss Boudoir…enough said
This was part of a group art project called Badass Miniatures in the Hudson Valley, NY.
I transform an industrial product; steel as an inherently cold material, into something warm in tone with soft contouring. This dichotomy is where my art takes shape. Steel is incredibly strong and durable. A woman has endured so much throughout time, harassment, objectification, abuse…a boudoir or dressing room is her private realm. Take a peak behind the scenes into a boudoir, the classic and private realm of Hollywood’s golden age. Women can be tough as steel and soft and feminine at the same time... think of Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Edith Piaf, Sofia Loren, this vignette is based on a boudoir that we can only imagine, behind the scenes of a strong woman in the entertainment industry.
The room divider hides just enough, the “idea” of a woman undressed. We can only imagine what this inner sanctum hides.
1:12 scale

A salvaged piece of signage, a large aluminum letter O, serves as the Oval Office walls. The office floor rotates to expose the two opposing worlds. Brushed solid steel executive office furniture on one side represents the previous administration that made so much social and environmental progress. Overturn to the underside - the Opposite reality, the Opposition, the Oppression – shown in negative space decomposing and decaying in rust. Many executive orders sway from a comb-over of exposed wire(tapping):
· nO tax(es)
· nO democracy (in Russian)
· nO reg(ulation)s
· nO EPA
· nO immigrants
· nO clean water
· nO clean air
· nO equality
· nO facts
· nO healthcare!
Size: 12-3/4” tall (14-1/4” including turning knob) x 10-1/8” wide x 4-3/4” deep