Light My Life

At this time I am unable to sell my work through the website. The pieces displayed in the "gallery" have already been purchased. If you are interested in purchasing my work, the best way to do so is to track my fanny down at one of the shows listed on the "schedule" page. I try to have a good inventory at the shows with a variety of pieces. and it is easier to make a selection that way. Call or email me if you need more information or updates. Thanks!

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Adapt / 12" x 4" x 4" / Porcelain, Wood, Metal, and Found Object.

Wind / Horses are a variety of sizes / Porcelain, Wood, Metal, and Found Object

Faultlines / 13" x 10" x 8" / Porcelain, Wood, Metal, and Found Object

New Song / 10" x 6" x 4" / Porcelain, Wood, Metal, and Found Object

Demons / 50" x 36" x 14" / Porcelain, Wood, Metal, and Found Object

James Borden was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. He graduated from Dana College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a major in Humanities. He graduated from Wartburg Theological Seminary in 1987 with a Master of Divinity Degree. James currently lives in Zumbrota, Minnesota with his wife, Barbara Kopperud, Daughter, Irina, and son, Alex. In a restored 1880’s barn he works fulltime making all-wood kinetic sculptures called Timeshapes. Timeshapes are essentially mechanical weight-driven or spring-driven clocks, every part of which has been designed and built by James Borden. The pendulums and escapements are also of the artist’s own design. Timeshapes exhibit a wide, graceful motion and soft, woody, clicking sounds which can be mesmerizing and relaxing to watch and hear. In his Timeshapes James Borden presents a different vision of the passage of time: Less frenetic and urgent than the normal ticking of a clock; slower paced; peaceful; playful; something easier to live with.

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