Interview: Great Balls Of Fire!
Check out Lauren the fabulous maker behind the works from Great Balls Of Fire!
Tell us bit about yourself, your company.
GBF: I've been a cottage industrialist making utilitarian things to support my art habit and keep myself off of the job market since I was a kid. Great Balls Of Fire is a one-woman operation with everything designed and hand made here in Seattle.
When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?
GBF: What? I'm not young anymore? I sure hope it's not too late to be a child prodigy.
Is there a certain person, place or object you draw inspiration from?
GBF:My dad was a potter and taught me how to hustle the goods.
If you had no boundaries: money, time, space, support, etc. what dream project would you pursue?
GBF: A giant walk-in Leviathan that responds to your presence.
What’s your favorite thing to do to kill time? Any secret Internet time wasters, guilty pleasures?
GBF: Absolutely nothing, often with friends.
Where do you like to go when you just want to get away? A beach, a mall, a market? What’s your favorite type of spot to go unwind.
Road trip!
If you only had one more meal to eat on this world what would it be? (It can be several courses)
GBF: Start with a gin and tonic by a friend's pool in Tucson, proceed to gambas al ajillo at this little tapas bar in Madrid, followed by a plate of agnello at the Sora Margherita in the Jewish ghetto in Rome, then some spinach with lemon at Marcello's, followed by some montmorency cherry pie from trees on Vashon, all swilled down with plenty of vino...kill me now.
What do you love about most UCU’s Summer Show?
GBF:Don't know yet.
Tell readers what they should expect to see when they stop by and see you at UCU.
GBF: Jewels and baubles handmade from lab glass combined with repurposed and scavenged bits--bullet shells, old beads, fur, machine parts. All the findings are sterling silver. Why dress like everyone else?
