Category Archives: Installation work
Earth Day bottles X
Oh my. This is getting tiring. I grabbed about an hour at the Town Center today to put up another fifty bottles with Pablo, so there are only two hundred to go, which should be a piece of cake to … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles IX
TWO stories in the Star: There’s a story in the Simi Valley edition here and a different one in the Moorpark edition here. They turned the Simi story around pretty fast – Jason was there only yesterday afternoon!Â
Earth Day bottles VIII
 At the end of the day we managed to get about six hundred of the bottles in the air, mostly thanks to help from CLU student Bret Bays, who worked with me to tie together clusters of bottles for … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles VII
A good morning’s work at the Town Centre. With the help of Pablo (seen here hanging a cluster of bottles) we managed to hang about two hundred and fifty bottles. There’s a long way to go, but this is progress. … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles VI
Here’s a close shot of the bottles so you can see the gravel and ash.
Earth Day bottles V
Back in Simi Valley, that beautiful oak tree has been waiting patiently for some attention, so I went to the Town Center and began the long process of hanging the bottles onto the branches. Thankfully Megan and Whitney had finished … Continue reading
Earth Day bottles in the news
There’s a nice piece here in the Ventura County Star about the bottle installation. Kitty Dill ROCKS!Â
March 21st, 2008
Today is the Spring equinox, Full Moon and Good Friday. Easter Sunday is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. I guess it’s pretty unusual for the first Sunday to be the day immediately after … Continue reading
Numbers by Painting IV
I laid on a coat of Ultramarine blue over the brown surface of the number five piece, and used some zinc white mixed with a little payne’s grey to make a semi-transparent blue-grey to glaze over the number two. I pulled the glaze using … Continue reading