You are the plank. You are an even-hewn and sanded length that reaches end to end, your hand upon my temperamental arc. You are diameter aimed clean into the heart of me. I turn as on a spit of steel (your steel) except that I am flame and meat at once the same. You are the planet firm in heaven’s sea, and I the tempest-tossing test of earth’s humanity. You are the moon. I am the tides that pout and turn and then return in love’s remembered ache. You are the balance and I am the dance.
The Wishing Tree: SOLD, 8″ x 8″, Glass, Millefiori on Wedi Board. Colorado Dawn: AVAILABLE, 7″H and 13″ W, Mexican Smalti, Mexican Smalti Tortillas, Chopped and Divoted. Mirrored Wall:NOT AVAILABLE, 33″H x 15″W, Hand-Cut Mirror and Colored Mirror; Outdoor Installation for Ciel Gallery (now demolished). Wasteland: SOLD, 18″ x 18″; Agate, Mirror, Stained Glass, Unglazed Porcelain, Aquarium Gravel, Pewter; This mosaic began with a dream. Because the image is so void-like, I included lines from T.S. Eliot’s Wasteland and The Hollow Men using small pewter beads that crash into the deep. The mirror-backed “void” reflects the viewer. From the center, spirals of poetry and blank human faces form a rough heart shape, balancing the sense of desolation with a touch of hope. From the central abyss, the tesserae become less defined and increasingly chaotic, until in some spots there are no tesserae at all, but only a gouged space remaining. He Said, She Said: NOT AVAILABLE; 12″ x 7″ Drawing on Paper (created for a future project that didn’t happen). Sunbather: NFS, 10″H x 10″W by 5″ Deep; Crystal, Beads, Agate, Glass, Shell, Copper on Stone. Wild Hearts: SOLD, Unglazed Porcelain, Clay, Beads. Sunflower Table:SOLD, 46″ rectangular mosaic partially shown, Glass. The Boy with a Moon and Star: SOLD, Glass on Wedi Board. Late Bloomer:AVAILABLE, 10″H x 36″L x 18″W; Selected by and displayed at the Society of American Mosaics 2010; Glass, Metal, Mineral, Shell, Beads, Carborundum, Wire, Hand-Carved Styrofoam base by me; Through art, I hope to capture and momentarily magnify archetypal awakenings that resonate with the human spirit. I’m drawn to create with mixed materials because I want, above all, to create as full an image as I can manage. Late Bloomer pulls from the miscellanea of life — sometimes messy, sometimes arbitrary, always fascinating, always more cluttered than we had imagined. The pruning and fitting together of disparate materials becomes a way to order my own thoughts, emotions, and priorities, allowing the finished piece to serve as a kind of talisman.
Pam Goode Writes 