Music Boxes (2005)
| My motivation to decorate music boxes came from a desire to have a commodified branch of my artistic endeavors that need not be work-by-commission, as portraiture does. I was considering producing these as a wintertime substitute for street portraiture, though their construction turned out to be prohibitively time consuming and expensive. This project has been shelved until a I can work out an effective way to manufacture and distribute them. These are photographs of the prototypes: |
"Musical Saw" Music Box, 2005, approximately 30" long. 
"Musical Saw" Music Box detail (image of child labor protest, 1906, oil on spring steel). 
"Musical Saw" Music Box detail (movement plays the song, "It's a Small World") 
"St. Cecilia" Music Box, 2005, 3" x 4" x 8". 
"St. Cecilia" Music Box, inside (movement plays the song, "You've Got a Friend") |