Over the last ten days of January 2001, I started an amazing journey as an artist. All I wanted to do was make some glass beads.

What I found myself making, were hundreds of glass beads of all sizes and shapes, many of which spun off into art pieces of there own.

The first of these, was the fabric/sculpture/glass bead that I have posted near the bottom of my Sarah home page. I have already given various names to this first creation such as, "Amber Describing Sarah's Voice," or, "Harold Of Coming Good."

The truth is, I hardly know what to call these creations. It seems that each time I sit at my computer and play, new and gloriously amazing images evolve. Sometimes, late at night, it is hard to walk away from my computer and go to bed. Last night, 01/27/01, I made the two images shown here, and pieced together the glass tapestry below.

I will make pages soon that will show a whole varity of these type of creations

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Some times, late at night, I find myself picking out a random number from a glass bead file on my computer, and hitting it anew with all sorts of effects and filters, until something new and spectacular appears. I then save it and try to find a background. Often I'm reacting to things that may have happened during the day on good ol' SB2K. There was a religious discussion / spiritual love fest / your going to hell war, etc... going on the day I went home and made the following image. What really made it work, was setting it against the paper like background I had created one evening before. It is a beautiful image in itself. I then turned the canvas on it's side, and came up with the title, "I AM WHAT AM." I find it appropriate that I am adding it to my web page on Valentine's day. Let us remember, God Loves Us All. We All Love God, etc...

A few days before I made the above design, there was a different sort of war of words being exchanged on the forum, much more serious stuff. I knew when I went home that night. that I wanted to create an image that would say something positive, using graphics, about SB2K.1 I like the way this image below came out of me that night. It told me I was learning to react instinctively to what was happening around me, graphically speaking. More on this later. To be honest, as a graphic designer, I see room for improvement in the above image, but I'll leave that for another day.