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Thursday January 7, 2010
Hombre Gatto
For one UT retiree, a 2nd career in glass blows
Available at Parts & Labour: 1117 S Congress Ave; South
Austin; 512.326.1648
Creativity can be impeded by the stress of a day job, unless
you're an artist by trade, in which case creativity can be
impeded by the stress of selling your body for 25 bucks a
go. Finally ditching the day job and diving back into making
stuff, Hombre Gatto.
Hombre Gatto (not his real name) is a glass-blowing beast
who first dabbled in the craft back in the '70s, but is just
now fully devoting himself to it after finishing up a
25-year, quartz-free stint on the UT technical staff. His
favorite material is the beer bottle, which he converts into
handy household nightlights by hollowing out the heel,
bulbous vases by expanding the body, and heavy decorative
bowls by coating crunched remains with copper-color mica; he
also uses bottle lips to create "redneck pacifiers", a
trashily artistic exploration into the compulsion to
substitute Bud for boobies. Other offerings include tiled
mosaics with ghostly protruding faces (also made out of beer
bottles), fused plates in black and white zebra stripe
patterns, and bowls ranging from Venus Flytrap-looking
numbers to psychedelic jobs done up in tessellating bars of
color, a bowl best appreciated after smoking one.
Hombre will do custom jobs, the easiest being booze-based:
all you have to do is empty your favorite bottle, which
should be easy, considering how bitter you are about having
to fund your interpretive-dancing dream with interpretive
sexual morality.
Check out Hombre's work on Flicker here, and email
hombregatto@gmail.com to place an order
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