I'm Still Staring Down The Sun.

So today..... WE GOT TO TURN MY SCULPTURE OVER!!!! After 3 and a half weeks of staring up its rear-end, I finally got to see what it looked like right-side up. Did I mention it took 3 people to turn it over? 150 lbs. Hatch says it weighs. Well, go big or go home I suppose. Haha.

Look at that beautiful mold-ness. Today I shopvac-ed the plaster drops off, styrofoam, and other miscellaneous shit and found a huge mass of fuzz my mold is growing on one side! Everyone seems to miss out on the beauty of the mold except for me. I love it. It adds to the "organic" feel I want the piece to have. Who wouldn't want a naturally occurring pattern? Exactly. In the next week I am going to clean up, carve, and stain the sculpture (to my heart's content) then I'll show you more pictures of it.

In other sculpturenews, here are my two works from last week:

I think I am going to start trying to use cardboard to emphasize the figure (like in the blue dress [half-head and a shoulder]) and symbolize body/movement/emotion. We'll see how it goes. Yesterday when I was in the studio, the sunlight caught the pink dress sculpture in such a beautiful way. I think I took like 10 pictures of it. When I put it up in a gallery (I think I'm going to put it in my show next year), I want dramatic lighting like that. The shadows on the wall are pretty, but almost look like teeth - making the piece feel more violent/violated, just how I envisioned it. I consider the pink dress sculpture to be my first real feminist artwork. It's held open by zip ties. Zip ties imply force. Force implies lack of permission. So you could say this piece is about a number of things: domestic violence, rape, controlling partner, etc. I want to make more.


And lastly, this last week - I got this book in the mail [look at my kitten in the background. She loves books too.]. The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro. It was one of my favorites from high school, but I had it on joint-custody with a friend who isn't my friend anymore (I didn't get it in the friend divorce). So, when I saw it on amazon for $0.01, I jumped on it. The shipping made it a total of 4 dollars even. Better than a garage sale buy. It still remains one of my very favorite books.

[postcard from the lovely Miss Sharon Harper - sculptures by the beautiful Niki de Saint Phalle]

"...she wasn't a hypochondriac - it was more of a quest for proof that things could get better."
- The Every Boy

XO.