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Menage a Trois ... Clay, Plaster, & Bronze

9/26/2012

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 A number of years go I went to a teachers' workshop hosted by the Portland Museum of Art in Portland. One of the activities that we participated in was an experience in working with self-hardening clay. We were given a small handful of the material, and asked to make something. I started out forming a face that, after I played with the structure of the mouth, then morphed into some sort of split personality. As I looked at the clay, I felt the challenge to take it a step further - to create the faces of 3 different characters within the structure of the original face that would reveal themselves as the piece was rotated in front of the viewer's eye. I really enjoy a challenge, so I did end up with a face with 'multiple personalities'.
     I later took a mold making class and used the original clay piece to make a rubber mold with Brush-On 35 ( from the Smooth-On Company)  to make a plaster cast. I was never one to let a good mold stand idle, so I eventually used it to cast the piece in bronze. I liked the result, but upon reflection, I must say it may have been misnamed... perhaps 'Menage a Quate', or perhaps even 'Cinq' !
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    Cynthia Smith, Maine artist, originally from Connecticut. Taught art at secondary level for 35 years, retired in 2004. Sculpts in bronze, wood, stone, clay & plaster. Her work can be seen at several mid-coast Maine galleries and shows.

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