Works in progress: two views. The shift in perspective highlights the apparent relative sizes of the three pieces. Doesn't that smaller bust look larger in one shot than the other?Navajo Wheel clay. The red sticks to your hands for days, despite scrubbing, and it's a soft clay, so building, building up, may take patience, but that clay comes out of the kiln so handsome, so deep-toned.
Next step: I make heads for at least two out of three. The largest is meant to be a self-portrait, either literally or figuratively so. "Just shoulders" or "lacking a head" feels appropriate, I must admit. Rough efforts spark rough thoughts, rough drafts.