{"id":4516,"date":"2013-09-23T14:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2013-09-22T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:41:29","slug":"the-guys-have-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/the-guys-have-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guys Have It"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had several conversations recently about the ratio of men to women working in polymer. I’m not sure I’m really the authority on the subject, but we do know it’s small. I seem to recall that Cynthia Tinnapple and Judy Belcher pulled up a statistic at Synergy 3 but I can’t recall the exact number, only that we are an overwhelmingly female-dominated art form. That poor handful of guys!<\/p>\n

So this week, I thought I’d highlight a handful of our guys, trying to stick with the ones that don’t get seen around quite so much.<\/p>\n

First, for your pattern- and color-viewing pleasure, we have Adam Thomas Rees<\/a>. His work is similar to that of Jon Anderson<\/a>, who we have featured on here and in the magazine; but for the most part he works on a larger scale and the focus is more on color rather than controlled patterns.<\/p>\n

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I can’t say if Adam was influenced by Jon or if they individually came to work in cane-covered animal forms separately, but I think I see some influence by other men in polymer here. At the very least, there are some canes that look quite a bit like the the mica-shift canes of Dan Cormier. Maybe its just that these guys are all sticking together!<\/p>\n

If you know of any guys in polymer (or are one of them!) \u00a0that aren’t getting the attention you think they deserve, write me at sbray(a)thepolymerarts.com with a link to their work, and let’s see about getting them highlighted this week!<\/p>\n

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