Holding Out

 

Clay with surface colour 10" high

I made this odd little figure yesterday from an old metal armature which I re-built. I am showing two views of the same figure which illustrates I think the potential richness of the three dimensionality of sculpture. I wanted to use the clay in a very free way, sort of a Giacometti approach (but I didn't have a fag hanging out of my mouth). I have no desire so far to use clay to make abstract pieces but I do have a desire to use it to explore the tenuous and strange relationship between the human species and its environment.  Antony Gormley talks about clay as "the flesh of the earth".  Where do we fit in? Where are we going?  I like the startled expression that this figure has at some angles. 

ps. how  many of you remember Bonnie Tyler's "Holding out for a hero" round about the mid 1980s I think?  I loved her voice. I could hear better then. In fact I can still hear it in my head..  Google it...