Doug Bucci

Doug Bucci came to speak to us this week about how technology has influenced his work. He originally entered his art school with the intention of being a painter. Then when he took his first painting elective, he found himself bored and disappointed. He then discovered the metal studio, where he felt as if he were at home.

Doug said that he found that he liked feeling insecure though, and took an opportunity to play with cad and 3D modeling. He had also intended to be a teacher, but he put that on hold while he applied to graduate school. There, he put aside everything he knew, which was about metals to start over with cad and 3D modeling.

After grad school, he began siezing all the opportunities he has: working for industry, starting his own studio, and starting his own bussiness. He did commercial work for some time, to challenge himself, but then there came a point when he noticed he could make a living by simply being an artist and doing what he wanted to do. His work evolved into something in which his materials and tools of is orginal media, metals, began matching with what he had in his head, the cad and 3D modeling. The only question was of what he wanted to do with this evolution.

He was suddenly inspired by two jewelry makers who were also diabetics, like Doug. They were two people whom he strongly admired and with which he identified. From then to now, his work has been based on subjects concerning diabetics, combining the ideas of soft tissues and hard metals, working to create his equivalent of the breast cancer ribbons and extending his ideas much further. Doug still does jewelry, too. He has taken his idea of what jewelry is, which is from when he was growing up in the 80s, and mixed it with his diabetic ideas.