I spent last week trying a new medium (bone), working with mostly new tools (dremel with dental bits, jewellery files and a broken scalpel blade) and at a different scale (tiny). Sculpting by ‘carving out’ rather than building up as I do in wax or clay was definitely a challenge to how I see, think and work. And a challenge to the senses; bone smells very … distinctive.
recycled ivory from old piano keys and upcycled mahogany from an old fruit platterNetsuke-style carving in the shape of an old-man mask
A while back I ran away from a twentymumble-year corporate career to be a feckless art student. Since then I've dirtied my hands with, metaphorically and/or literally, bronze and ceramic sculpture, photography, and digital and traditional illustration. Mask making was one discovery, dovetailing with my interests in teaching and performing improvised theatre.
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