Sunday, October 24, 2010

Halloween in Fanta Se


Although Santa Fe is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful cities in the US, it certainly has its dark side.  All those posh adobe hotels and expensive galleries downtown are a pretty veneer on a very, very old and very strange place.  I love Halloween and my city definitely has some of the scariest places to visit that I have ever seen.  More often than not, buildings in Santa Fe have ghosts or at least ghost stories.  The house next door has reports of a man who walks up and down the parking lot at 4 or 5 in the morning.  To beat them all is the old prison on Route 14 (the Turquoise Trail).  After a riot in the '80s, the prison has remained empty of living prisoners- spooky!  Visit if you're feeling brave...

Friday, October 1, 2010

Mystery Alloy


Here are a few new cloisonnes in progress- fine silver laminated with copper using eutectic solder. Notice the dark spots on the large piece: the solder has eaten through the silver to form nice little craters! The eutectic solder must've formed some strange alloy when it melted between the two layers of pure metal. I'll still enamel the piece just to see what might happen...