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Thursday, May 12, 2022

ARTIST OR ARTISAN

I WAS UTTERING A WRIT WHERE I WANTED TO DESCRIBE MYSELF AS ARTIST, WRITER, MUSICIAN AND BUSINESSMAN.

THE RESEARCH EXPEDITERS THOUGHT THAT ONLY MUSICIAN AND BUSINESSMAN WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE CLAIM.

I WRITE, DO I NOT? I WAS DOING MUSIC.  THE PAPER MACHE' RESUMED SOON.

THE REST OF ARTIST, MOST RECENTLY IS VIDEOED AND POSTED, BUT FOR QUITE A FEW YEARS I MADE METAL OBJECTS, THE COPPER ASYLUM RACERS AND OTHER PIPES AND WATER PIPES AS WELL. THE DESIGN AND HAND MANUFACTURE IS THE WORK OF AN ARTISAN OR AN ARTIST.

IN 1974 I ENDED UP BY CHANCE RUNNING A COMMERCIAL SILVER AND GOLD  CASTING SERVICE AND JEWELRY FACTORY. AS I DID LOST WAX CASTING WEEKLY, I COULD MAKE ANYTHING I THOUGHT UP OUT OF GOLD AND SILVER.

 

AT ADVANCED METHOD JEWELRY MANUFACTURING THE SHOP POLICY WAS TO BE NICE AND TECHNICALLY HELPFUL TO EACH AND EVERY CUSTOMER.

I had an AAA Industrial Credit Rating with the Bank of Nova Scotia.

I had letters from Immigration and Manpower Canada which described my training of an otherwise unemployable woman with disfiguring facial injury. She achieved permanent employment as the most expert Wax Impression producer whom the large manufacturer who hired her had ever encountered. I had cast 50,000 pieces of jewelry at Advanced Method. I sold it in 1978 and bought this property at Otter Point one year later.

This is my currently used 1975 Asylum Racer, with the Anthony Bowl, carrying a BRINDLE E nail.

THE ASYLUM RACER S (I USE ONE DAILY, 45 YEARS OLD)WITH STERLING SILVER BOWL  AND FINISH. I MADE  GOLD AND JEWELED AND DECORATED WITH ANYTHING ANYONE COULD IMAGINE ON A FOUR INCH TALL WATER PIPE. 

I HAD PRODUCED MODERN COMPACT WATER PIPES, THE ANAYALAHATOR   and the ASYLUM RACER were made of copper glass and latex rubber. THEN AT THE FACTORY, i made THE SUPER ASYLUM RACER (the AR 's') IN GLEAMING STERLING SILVER WITH A WHITE LATEX RUBBER CORK AND FLUTED STEMMED GLASS BOTTOMS TO HOLD THE WATER. ALL OF MY GOLD AND JEWELED AND DECORATED ASYLUM RACERS WERE BURNED IN THE FIRE AT OTTER POINT IN THE ORIGINAL HOUSE WHEN IT WAS ROBBED AND BURNED DOWN IN JUNE OF 1980.

IT JUST OCCURRED TO ME. I THINK MY INVENTORY OF CHEAP GOLD RINGS WAS STOLEN BEFORE THE ARSON. WERE THE GOLD AND WAS THE STOCK OF STERLING SILVER ASYLUM RACERS STOLEN NOT BURNED IN THE HOUSE AS I HAD THOUGHT UNTIL RIGHT NOW?

SURELY THIS QUALIFIES ME AS AN ARTIST. OK WHAT ABOUT THE HUNDREDS OF CAST BEES IN GOLD AND PINE CONES AND ANYTHING I COULD FIND TO MOLD OR INVEST IN PLASTER KILN AND CAST THE VOID OF OR CARVE FROM WAX OR EXTRUDE OR MOLD FROM WAX.  

I BET I CAST MORE ART ONLY OBJECTS THAN MOST LOST WAX ARTISTS. WHILE I MADE THE ASYLUM RACERS. WHILE I CAST UP TO 45,000 PIECES OF JEWELRY FOR OTHER JEWELRY MANUFACTURERS, AND I CERTAINLY SOLD ANY FINISHED JEWELRY THAT I COULD GET ORDERS TO MAKE. 

I EVEN WORKED FOR CHEAP PRICES AND LOW WAGES MANUFACTURING SILVER CHARMS AND PENDANTS FOR VANCOUVER'S BOUTIQUES, IN GASTOWN AND ON FOURTH AVENUE. 

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