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  I’m spending the day at a hospital waiting room. My wife is undergoing a series of surgeries to restore sight to her left eye. Today’s round should be the last. When we began this, in November, she had no sight in that eye and the doctor offered no prognosis. We are now optimistic that [...]

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A quick check-in from phone. Most color applied. More details and distressing to come.

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I wrote, a few days ago, about feeling my way through adapting skin-on-frame boatbuilding techniques to bird sculpture.  When I wrote this piece I was sure that I had rounded the corner and had mastered stretching a fabric skin on a bird shaped frame. I was wrong. I finished my last work session applying a [...]

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Every step of this project is an experiment.  Last night I purchased a yard of muslin, dug out a box of copper tacks and went to work covering this bird. Covering kayaks and canoes is always an adventure.  It always amazes me that with enough twisting and pulling, tacking and tack pulling a skin can [...]

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