| 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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'Menage a Trois'.... 3 views... 4"h
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