Illinois artist Jiyong Lee uses a special glass technique called cold working to create his unusual segmented sculptures inspired by the growth of cells. The artworks, part of a series called Segmentation, are created without glass blowing or kilns, but instead through a labor-intensive process of cutting, sanding, laminating, and carving. Story here.
“Rudolph Perz, an advertising executive who pondered a soulless, squishy, cylindrical mixture of flour and water on his kitchen table 50 years ago and conjured up the genial Pillsbury Doughboy, died on Thursday in a suburban Chicago hospital. He was 89.” …
“He made his debut in a 1965 commercial for crescent rolls. Within three years the figure, sporting a kerchief and toque and always tickled by a signature tummy poke, claimed an 87 percent brand recognition among American consumers. That was enough to immortalize it in the pantheon of other anthropomorphic hucksters, including the Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger and Morris the Cat.”
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Juvenile, I know, but couldn’t help myself with rubber and good luck in the same marketing effort. From here.
The North window is mostly made up the oldest glass in the Cathedral.
Another abstract in a series
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