This is another private holiday for me - the day I sold my first iron bowl, back in 1987. It was an openwork bowl called Spiral Dance. I sold it from an invitational exhibit of ironwork at the Madison-Morgan Museum in Madison, Georgia. The exhibit opened at the start of the Southeastern Conference that year, of ABANA - the Artist Blacksmith Association of North America. That was also the first time I was asked to demonstrate at a national ABANA conference. (I wisely declined, to wait another two years.)
Back then I had no idea I'd end up specializing in vessels. Or that my openwork iron fruit bowls would evolve into sculptures. I was just making what interested me most. That's what I'm doing now too, so who knows where it will go?
11:21:32 PM 
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