Wellhead Blowout, April 20, 2010

Artists Responding to the Deepwater Horizon explosion.

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Image from Oil and Water: The Face of loss, a project by Terri Garland
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Gulfport Miss. shrimp boats idle at the height of the 2010 shrimp season
Diane Kreiter

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Title: Wellhead Blowout 2010, Terry Kreiter
Dims: 22 x 10 x 8 inches
Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze, cast by the artist
Supporting material: Terry Kreiter Sketchbook #25

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Drawing from sketchbook #25 This was the primary drawing used, it holds all of the notes and ideas, along with some casting details.

Artist Note: I wanted to have some imagery showing through the surface of the fish. I wanted it to reflect in the fish scales; I think this idea came from my irresistible draw to the last paragraph in the Cormac McCarthy novel, The Road. I was aided in this process by using the molds I made from a Michael Gourd, Mayan glyph stone.
(refer to the Aztec Bird-Fish post)
"Once there were brook trouts in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery." Cormac McCarthy The Road

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Detail: Wellhead Blowout

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Wax pattern, the transparency, color and lightness of the wax is beautiful. I regret losing this quality in the bronze.

Above: Wax pattern



Above: Click image for detail

Aztec Bird-Fish

Creating The Aztec Bird-Fish

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Title: Aztec Bird-Fish Terry Kreiter, 2010
Dims: 25 x 7 x 5 inches
Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze with stone base
Cast by the artist.

Above: Mayan glyph, pour stone, Michael Goard


The spark that inspired me to make this sculpture came from a gift from Michael Gourd; his contemporary version of a Mayan glyph.



Above: Open face epoxy mold with a bronze element.

I made some open faced molds from the glyph surfaces to make wax patterns in order to produce the bronze elements. These surfaces are used in the sculpture composition.

Above: Detail

Above: Drawing from book "The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire"


My method for creating sculpture is to take advantage of the inspirational spark by immediately recording the essence into my sketchbook, no matter how vague or how absurd; now it can't get away. If you are not careful the idea will leave just like the memory of a dream. I block out a few pages in my sketchbook and spend some time developing the idea by gathering up information from books, internet and conversation. I give little reverence to this information. I just want it to fuel a stream of thought and allow me to develop the ideas subconsciously with no struggle, no censoring.

Above: Working drawings on studio floor.

Above: Detail, Aztec Bird-Fish

Above: Drawing from " The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire"

Above: Detail, Aztec Bird-Fish

Above: Drawing from "The Aztecs: Rise and Fall of an Empire"

Artist Note: The above drawing turns out to be a kind of coda of the sculpture.

Above: One of the three wax patterns ready for the casting process.

Above: Wax pattern ready for investing and casting.

Terry Kreiter Website

Pop! Goes the Weasel

Sculpture created for the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art- Auction


Title: The Monkey Chased the Weasel
Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 3 inches
Medium: Unique cast and fabricated bronze
Artist note: Created for the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, 2010 Auction


Above: Early wax patterns with working drawing



Above: Drawing from Sketchbook #25

The Monkey Chased the Weasel 2010

New Collaboration: Virdeh & Kreiter

Documentation for the second collaboration

This post contains the materials; sketches, mock-ups, conceptual notes, and photos of the progress and completion of our second project.

Breugel: Triumph of Death

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Sketch: In reference to Breugel's "Triumph of Death." A detail from the top left corner of the painting. Fred Virdeh




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Title: Crippled though I was, I was no mean cyclist
Medium: Wood marquetry Dims: 6.5 x 7 x 1/4 inch (A reference from Beckett's "Molloy")
Artist: Fred Virdeh 2009



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Some early conceptual drawings based on the previous Fred Virdeh projects.

Sketches: Terry Kreiter 2010

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First Project:
Terry Kreiter, and Fred Virdeh

Samuel Beckett Tables
A collaboration with furniture designer and woodworker Fred Virdeh
Wood: Fred Virdeh Metal: Terry Kreiter

For details of the Beckett Tables, see at Terry Kreiter website