We saw a video on Rachel Whiteread. Her staircases inspired me as I continue to work on Poly: means many. Foamcore and double sided tape gave us approximate sizes and appearance. Gregg is cutting glass. The glue is UV cured. After we use our UV light, the first two stairs went outside on a sunny day for additional curing. 
Topography
I have made a base for Poly-means many that will sit inside the steel legs. Except I’m going to have to modify the corners, because they won’t fit. They are too tall. Art, for me is the process, and learning. I have helped build and rehab many houses, so you’d think I would get that “measure twice” rule of carpenters. However, problems and glitches sometimes lead to new ideas. Anyway, most of the topography is made of scraps of plywood. I will insert some pieces of plate glass in some of the gaps. Some are holes, or ruts, like to map of my life. The red wood dye is a Briwax product. I will continue to add more dye to make some areas dark. Because some of the plywood had a hard finish, it barely takes the dye, and other areas are various shades.
Shadows
Poly-means many
I am trying to understand the many sides of this thing. Maybe like a blind person describing an elephant. I have already used steel wire to make the word “open” which I plan to use to wire the book closed. Along with openings and opportunities, there are limits. After I fashioned the word “limit”, Gregg forged it for me, making it flatter and wider. Then we took a photo to show the shadow, and the light. Many of the words I’m using are opposites, but some are shades of meanings. “Limit” may appear on or near the “glass ceiling.”
Siren?
Poly-means many is the project that I am pursuing, even though I did not receive the grant. Gregg is lending some technical help, and as always is a sounding board, but he’s insisting that I learn to swim (make a sculpture) on my own.
I have been gathering thoughts and ideas since Sept. 2021, when my son Forrest visited. He pointed out the parallel curves in my recent paintings. That gave me the handle to write the grant narrative. The steel framework was left over from a first go that Gregg had at Amaranth. I spied it in the welding yard, and we worked together to add a steel base. Now she sits on a rolling dolly in my studio, calling to me as a siren.
Oops! No posts for four months?
When I make my New Years resolutions, I will try to do better on keeping up with my work in progress. Here are a few pieces that I have finished in 2021.
I was hacked
Rotten bleeping scoundrels! I didn’t quit working, but I couldn’t post. We’ve updated my website today with recently finished work. I’m adding three pictures of work in progress. 
Goodby 2020, Glad to see you go.
Despite everything that happened in 2020, I got to do a lot of painting. I have a heater, but when I walk in, the studio can be in the 40’s. So I dress in layers, and get to work while it warms up a bit.
Hope to see you this time next year.
Recycle, repurpose
Gregg’s woodshop studio is in the classroom next to mine, in a 90 year old school gymnasium. The floors are hardwood, but not flat. He bought these preused solid core doors and is making a large flat worktable. He’s been slow to customize his shop. He’s spent most of his life working on gravel.
Artists shelter in place
We are using this time to repaint our living room. We are putting light color over dark. We will be moving the sculpture by Dave Munson next to get around the corner.
Christmas portrait
We got everyone together for Christmas.