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Shows, costumes, gates and angels from John's studio in Tucson, first told on his old site.

A wide view inside a white show tent: visitors walk past a booth of white walls hung with metal crosses and fish, a standing steel figure at the right, and a black table in front.Newest · 2016 and 2017The Tucson Gem Shows, 2016 and 2017John's booth at the gem shows, in photographs from 2016 and 2017, and how one tent beside the Tucson show in 2005 started it all.
  • Models walk a smoky runway toward the camera; the woman in front wears a black armored top with 4045 painted on her stomach, and a white feathered costume follows on the right.MODA 2016: the Mad Max costumes2016For the MODA 2016 show, a benefit for the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, the Industry Salon asked John for "Mad Max" style costumes.
  • A standing steel figure of a woman with one arm raised, a blue ribbon hanging from her hand, against a dusk sky with string lights and desert hills.The Gallery Art Show, 20162016Serenity took 1st Place in Fine Arts at The Gallery at Dove Mountain, and John's chess set received an honorable mention.
  • An ornate brass key pendant with a small gear set at its center, on a gold chain against black cloth.Jewelry made with AngieA line of jewelry designed and made by John and his wife, Angie, much of it from recycled parts, the way he builds his art.
  • A low view of a chess board in a heavy dark frame with rolled steel trim, the pieces lined up on light and dark squares.The chess setsChess pieces with rough, twisted surfaces, boards framed in riveted steel, and an honorable mention at Dove Mountain in 2016.
  • An arched steel gate filled with a lattice of welded nails, set in a rose-colored adobe wall, with a garden path and plants visible through it.Gates, furniture and the No Anchovies jobA gate built out of nails, security doors and railings, tables in granite and steel, and steelwork for the No Anchovies restaurant.
  • A steel spider on a concrete floor, its body built around a gear and a ribbed cylinder, standing on long pointed legs cut from steel plate.Steampunk critters from scrapSpiders, trilobites, grasshoppers and fish, built from scrap engine parts, pipe wrenches, gears and a billiard ball.
  • A standing steel angel built of thin horizontal slices, polished wings raised behind her and a staff in hand, on a low base against a dark backdrop.Making the angelsArchangels Gabriel, Michael and Ariel, Angelica and Eternal, with a time-lapse of an angel taking shape in John's studio.

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