That One Thing
I like to think about shapes. Sometimes I think of a new one. It's something I do without wanting very much to explain it.
3D printed steel is my main medium, and I also work with subsurface laser damage in glass. The shapes I want aren't moldable, so most artmaking and manufacturing methods don't work well for me, which is why I got into 3D printing.
This is a simple business: I sell metal and glass. I don't limit editions and I price as low as costs permit. I sell mainly through this site and Shapeways, without representation.
Profits vary. I've worked many day jobs, currently protein zapper. So far the lights have stayed on.
Around the turn of the millennium a window opened, as 3D printing (which had been around for many years at that point) got cheaper and better. The technology suited my style, and my designs were among the first printed objects to be sold outside the industry. You can see here some of the designs that sold the world on 3D printing.
This site moves slowly, but it's alive and shipping orders.
I hope you'll enjoy the sculptures.
2026
It's been a tough 5 years. I messed up my knee life-changingly, the steel printing tech I was using has sunset without a replacement, and I think if I could retcon one of those things it would be the steel. I miss glass but I couldn't continue with it after my day job came back from the pando. Now I'm planning to retire from that job, but it will take the best part of a year. (In the market for a longterm side hustle that takes a lot of specialized knowledge and isn't very lucrative? Check this out!)
Sorry about the site being in ruins and the social media nonexistent. Sanity requires that when there's spare time I design, and write code to design harder. For the first time in 25 years I own a 3D printer, nothing like steel but faute de mieux I can vibe with it. Of course, as I write it's been down for over six weeks. (Yes, Bambu.)
Well, onward and upward. I have measured hope that there will be more stuff after I'm quits with the proteins.
2021
Setting aside the generative engine I had been working on, during the plague year I took an unexpected turn into glass casting. I'm enjoying being a studio artist again, there's been a lot of water under the bridge since I last was, and it's a real pleasure to dust off those skills and learn some new ones.
I write in haste this late Tuesday (hope to update more soon) but you can see some at my (also new) 'gram, and maybe one or two on Etsy.
There's still mathematical content, though not much like my steel prints.
Times have changed, so have I.
Special Thanks
To Terran Melconian for much help with photography.
And to Zarf for...well.
Pages I no longer maintain
Studio – A quick tour of my workspaces.
Shows – Now announced on social media.
Press – This got silly.
Resources – Lists of this kind are deprecated now that we have Google.