New Piece

I've been very busy lately, but I decided to make a new piece with some very heavy cultural reference. One of my recent pieces (the most recent) is called The Lamellain Barb and Thread of Autosacrifice. This piece is modelled after the needle and barbed thread used by the Maya in autosacrifices of bloodletting where the spine and thread were pierced through the tongue, forskin, or labia of a person. The thread or paper on the ground would collect blood. In some cases, the thread or paper was burned. In some cases, the blood would fall or or be applied to corn which was then used to bake sacred breads. This piece is made of copper, brass, leather. and hemp.



Dark? Yes. Creepy? Yes. Just my style? You bet ya!

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Another Happy Customer!

I recieved an email the other day from a happy client. At the time, I was pretty tired from working overtime on production pieces for the upcoming sales. My morale and motivation was low, and this message really picked me up and allowed me to get that extra umph into my step and finish what I had set out to accomplish. So here is the message:

"Cheers on the tattoo. just for the record, since you went ahead and got the tattoo,I figure I should let you know that the necklace you gave me is one of maybe half a dozen pieces in my life I have totally fallen in love with and almost never take off. not because of some weird obsession with you, the artist, cause really I don't do that. just because the piece really strikes a chord with me on a number of levels. it's perfectly appropriate for the here and now and i totally ♥ it."

She also sent me a picture of the pieces that she is talking about, which is The Steampunk Pharaoh's Ankh. This is an image of her wearing it.

The tattoo that she is referring to in the message is the tattoo that I recently had done of the Steampunk Pharaoh's Ankh. This is a picture of that:

So anyway, we get little victories where we can. Take those victories and use them as fuel, because if you're doing it right, you'll need all the fuel you can get!

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Site Updates

So there's a lot of new content and features on the site.

To start off, the image gallery has now been split into two separate galleries. A Conceptual Metalwork gallery and a Production Metalwork gallery. Both can be found through the Home page, and every other page, of JPHii.com. With the splitting of the galleries, there is also now a third gallery of Videos that can be accessed through the image galleries. You can also choose your media player on the Video gallery.

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SIAM Postcards

We (The officers of SIAM) have officially finished and put the order in for the first of two official SIAM postcards of 2010! SO we will now release the images to the masses!
(Front)


(Back)

So congrats to Vincent Pontillo for having both a piece and a photo credit on this postcard, as well as Aric Verrastro for his postcard debut. Also, I feel like an egomaniac congratulating myself here, but congrats to me for having a photo of my piece on the back of the card as well as designing the post card!

Oh yeah, and congratulations to Simon Frysz for being the only model on the post card.

Expect to see these within the next week in person!

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Design Student Exhibition

The design student exhibition is up at Upton Hall on the Buffalo State College campus where a few of my pieces can be seen! Here's some images of the jewelry in the gallery.

The Amazing Extending Body Poker and Myconocle: The Eye of Psilocyborg

Dance for Me, Mycomistress and The Steak Knife of the Steampunk Serial Killer

Here's the two name plates.

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Updates

The site jphii.com is now fully updated!

New images are up, as well as a newly-formatted photo gallery, and a new page specifically for production pieces!

The Achievements page is also completely updated. So have a look around!

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Updates

I will be updating my site today with all new content. So please be patient when trying to view it. This will likely take me all day. Thank you.

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