Tablings 2023

11/26/23
Made in Tucson

11/24/23
Coven Night

10/28/23

Screwbean. 

9/29/23

Bicas Art Mart at Night

9/23/23

The Maker's Market at the Tuxon. 

Beholders may be angry, tyrannical hate balloons, but they never have Resting Bitch Face ;0

I didn't sell anything. I would like to present this conversation from episode 123 of The Muppet Show from 1976, in which the band is threatening to quit if they're not allowed to write a new theme song.

Floyd: Me and the gang have decided not to end our gig here if I can write the new theme song.

Kermit: Oh, that'll be fine with me.

Floyd: No it won't, man.

Kermit: Why not?

Floyd: You'll hate my music. You won't understand it.

Kermit: Wait, listen here. I'm pretty hip too, you know.

Floyd: Not hip enough. Nobody understands my music. I mean, I don't even understand it. If I didn't know I was a genius, I wouldn't listen to the trash I write.

8/18/23

Co/ven W'Frn

8/13/23

Rzet. The outside thing in the dark.

7/29/23

Web O' Life. Some eyes are closed, but other eyes are open. Stop thinking that. Those are art feudin' words.

7/1/23

Coven Night Market

3/26/23

Bicas Art Mart

2/26/23

Rozet

2/25/23

Tucson Peace Fair

2/12/23

Rozet Nursery

 

2/11/23

Woolly Fern Heart Attack Market

Skull Chair / Ceramic Bone Throne Sculpture

Ceramic skull chair sculpture (“Bone Throne”) by Aberrant Ceramics.

Available for purchase in my Etsy.

This ceramic skull chair sculpture is a handmade “bone throne” that reimagines the human cranium as macabre furniture.

Highly detailed yet eerie and primitive, it features reaching skeletal hands as armrests and a ribbed lower jaw that forms a hollowed-out seat.

The Origin Story

This design is a modern ceramic evolution of a piece of my own history. It is based on a large plywood skull my father created for our family’s basement haunted house in 1984. I've included an image of the original in the photos. The tradition was to invite the whole neighborhood to tour our haunted basement. This piece is also inspired by vintage Halloween decorations. I loved the distorted, non-anatomically correct skull imagery in these decorations and that pleasing distortion is also reflected in this piece.

The forehead and temples are covered in intricate, hand-carved scrolled patterns that bridge the gap between biology and architecture. Glazed with stark but glossy black and white glazes.

While a standalone art piece, it serves as a perfect "Bone Throne" for small figures, dolls, or as the centerpiece of a curated cabinet of curiosities. 

Dimensions & Specs

Size: Approx. 2.5 x 2.5 in. base | 7.5 in. height.

Weight: 26 oz 

11/20/23

10/29/23

10/15/23

10/13/23

My family's Halloween decorations circa 1984-1985. I love non-anatomically-correct skull illustrations on Halloween decorations.

 

10/12/23

Mission Statement

By sending my Skull Chair to its forever home, I want to send out encouragement to the spooky peoples of the world. I want to encourage the weird kids to create. I want to encourage the building of DIY family haunted houses. I want to break the stronhold of mass produced T*mu/W*lmart/Ama*on "art" and to encourage the creation of handmade art. I want to encourage the expanded and enlightened use of the ceramic medium to produce a variety of forms unhindered by tradition. I want to bring spooky joy to people's living spaces. I want to bring the unique DIY spirit of the Nosheny basement haunted house to everyone who needs it.

Flower Power Key Pot

11/20/23

11/10/23

7/22/23

I attempted this piece a few months ago just after a big move to a new space. Ended up destroying it and this is a second attempt now that the new living space doesn't feel quite so unreal.