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Aug 9, 2007

Eye-catching Sea Glass Festival

Sea Glass collectors browse Santa Cruz, California on October 6 and 7, 2007 for pretty, shiny finds and vie for top honours in "Shard of the Year" contest.
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I have enjoyed an eclectic career in theatre, dance, film and television as a publicist, stage manager, designer and technician. As a writer, my work has been published in the Canadian Theatre Review and Word Magazine. I also help moderate T.A.P.E., an online networking group for Toronto-based East Asian, Southeast Asian and Asian-Pacific entertainers and artists.

Production work has served as a useful cover for my love of pre-industrial and industrial-era technologies, and allowed me to learn many of the skills needed to run a small village - circa 1900.

Blame rests entirely on my grandmother, who taught me how to cross-stitch in the afternoons after kindergarten. This early addiction gradually blossomed into a general fascination with mechanical tools ranging from knitting needles to kick wheels, sailboats to bicycles. (Exceptions are made for electrically-driven woodworking tools, welding torches, and of course, for electric wheels and kilns).

I came to pottery by accident during a holiday in Turkey when, as an unsuspecting tourist, I was asked to throw a pot. Although this first piece collapsed soon after I started pulling up, I was hooked. After throwing almost exclusively for 5 years, I find myself drawn back to the more contemplative process of handbuilding.

My other obsessions are good food and wine, sailing, travel, history, video games, graphic novels/manga, international politics and uberkitsch.