Craft in America

Ultimately it's going to be a figure kind of like that so I'm just working on these two parts right now. This is a head that I recycled from the fire and the idea behind this piece is that even when life is crazy and chaotic all around us, we can still maintain our balance like you know the expression, monkey on your back. The head's not fired yet so I just have it taped in place. In fact I should probably take it off so it doesn't. Already broke a little bit yesterday. Because this piece is going to be so big and this is so incredibly rough, I just started it yesterday but it's going to be a big refined glass dress that will come down probably to about here and her head will be, so this is this part is going to be very heavy and it's going to be attached to this which is already probably about 22 pounds so this is not going to be glass so I made a very light armature kind of like papier-mch with plaster and now it's just kind of like the base and now I'm just building it up with my favorite product Magic Sculpt, which is a two-part plastic epoxy and it kind of acts as a permanent plastic clay and you can build things up and it's very light. I use this on all my work. I use it for the hair. I use it to make the transition between where the glass and clay are glued together more seamless and subtle and I am just going to make this whole monkey this way. And these legs, I will cover with the Magic Sculpt as well and they're going to end up being much more realistic, like you know, legs. I'm going to try to make this look like a more believable monkey, primate of some sort, tiny primate. I can never have enough primates once I'm finished with it and I fire the head and I glue that on, I'll spend a lot of time sanding it to the way that I like it. It'll just sort of reveal to me what what I should do, like I might put glitter on it, I might paint it. I might even decide not to have a clay head at all but have a glass head but I just had this image of a person with a monkey on its head.