After creating my first wearable sculpture with pinecone pieces, I knew I wanted to make another on a larger scale. This piece started with a ring meant to be worn on top of the shoulders and the pinecone pieces were added one by one using a turn table, cascading downward attaching the pieces to each other from clear cast resin, to cast fiberglass resin to pine. This piece walked the runway in Wearable Art II Read more…
The idea of wearable art came from a brainstorming session with my ceramics professor at UCF Chris Thomas, who had a lightbulb moment saying “how awesome would it be for you to make peacock armor and wear it around!” (I was making a lot of peacock feather pieces in that class.) I was taking beginning sculpture in the same semester and learning about resin casting, finding natural and man-made objects to cast. So began the Read more…
“Eclipse” I painted this Lifelines watercolor while at a makeshift campgound in Rexburg, Idaho during the Great American Eclipse of 2017! What a wild thing to see the eclipse in the line of totality. The lighter band across the painting is a mystery – I think it may have been the way the paper was stored with a tight band around it affecting the porousness.
I found a set of antique frames I’ve been holding onto for years and filled them with watercolor Lifelines representing the aorta and vena cava, two essential veins to heart function. They are a contemplation on mortality that was evoked by a friend who was in a near fatal accident. I think it’s an important part of the human experience to consider death – it’s a part of life that is inevitable yet can be Read more…
Part of the Lifelines Series – Line is the most basic element of design; most things in life can be simplified down to a single line: a vein on a leaf, the silhouette of a distant mountain range, the mapped route taken from one point to another. These pieces start with a single line and grow, representing the memory of the past and potential of the future. – I made this piece with the intention Read more…
Hello, I’m Austyn! I like to do many things – travel, surf, be in the great outdoors – but most of all I like to make art. I’ve been making art since I was very small and from all of my experience, I’ve learned that sharing art is just as important as making it. I studied Fine Art at the University of Central Florida. I always knew I liked making things but I struggled with Read more…