The Dancer: Purgatorio

The Dancer: sculpture mix and copper wire, pit-fired.

25-30-minute exercise with model.

New Mask: The Painted Man

The Painted Man (Math-theow): 
sculpture mix; denim, stormy blue, green, and transparent brown glazing, layered; leather strip.

Considering Hrothgar

In the original Beowulf, Hrothgar is both a good king and a king beset by woe from outside. I like that situation, that model, better than the newer versions in which King Hrothgar is complicit in the woes afflicting him and his people. Understanding how someone can be good, excellent to his people, and blameless . . . and yet also understanding how that someone can suffer, and how his people can suffer, through no specific fault of his or their own is powerful and compelling to me.

Such riddles matter.

A Whale of a Tale

Moby: sculpture mix, unglazed.

Thanks also to the artist of the Penguin Books Deluxe Edition of Melville's Moby Dick, foreword by Nathaniel Philbrick.  Book and book cover used here with respect.

(I can't find any reference to the actual artist of the cover, so I will need to conduct an image search in the near future.)

The Journey

Sculpture mix, unfired.

I am yearning for kelp.

Required Reading, Say I

Windfall and Bird