“Two Headed Death Monster,” my interpretation/transcription in clay and wax “Death Goddess Devouring the Corpse of a Drowned Lobster Fisherman” painting by Philip Allen, original from which my sculpture is a pretty literal transcription. My goal was to maintain the two dimensional grid in a three dimensional space. Remaining fragments after sloppy moldmakinf Museo Nationale […]
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Journal Export – May 18, 2025 May 18, 2025 — Killed May 18, 2025 May 18, 2025 — It’s always the thing next to the thing May 18, 2025 — Animatronic May 18, 2025 — Death goddess May 18, 2025 — Artists and models May 18, 2025 — Cadence May 18, 2025 — Physics May […]
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Killed Sacrificial clay I regret je le regrette I killed it Visitation of the mold makers. Imperative of Thursday mri. I should have separated the wheel. Made the back a shell. Contacted the fabricator who bought my kiln I let someone abuse my ceramic sculpture. I let it go. Why. It would have been possible. […]
Sunday, March 30, 2025
The clay dries out so much faster as I’m finishing the thing. Drawing.
Friday, March 28, 2025
It’s always the thing next to the thing The middle bottom of the sharks rather than the edge I went to an all girls school and craved boys. When I got to college chosen because it was a large semi public university not as elite as Yale and not Harvard because it was never part […]
Choice, Choice. Rejoice!
Advice & Teaching
“Don’t listen to Marge!” my grandmother would tell Terry Dintenfass when she was considering marrying Hal Laufman to whom my mother objected. When asked for his response, Phil critiques a problem line or curve. But the solution is usually not what looks wrong, bur the plane ahead or behind, its direction, speed, sharpness, roundness or […]
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Animatronic
Friday, November 29, 2024
Death goddess This has been an obsessive piece Subject matter and style, retaining image in my head, grid and dimension Solid form. Open. Smaller, larger. The back of it. The edges, sides. Corners! It’s always the thing next to the thing.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Artists and models One of my earliest desires was to show the context within the object. Reflect perhaps the environment. A sculpture class with the model in the middle, modelers and stand turning around and round was as interesting as the model himself.