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Ode to Joy
Only the second figure I have made (‘Keeping Fat’, 2012 Exhibition, was the first).
The exuberant legs kick-started this composition: puzzling how best to use them, I recalled school-day athletics. I’d excelled at cross-country, and suddenly saw this little bloke hurdling some obstacle, deliriously happy having escaped his classroom prison.
A cheese-shaped wedge of driftwood offered appropriate presentation. A nugget of a body, rounded by pebbledash, provided just the right scale to set off two swinging arms and support a head of great personality, a bit like his brother, ‘Sea Gipsy’.
Finding the two legs as one piece was a true gift. A further four items, in scale, were then required. One can understand why such constructions are rare. I’m not sure what or where his hat came from; perhaps a tiny remnant of dishcloth? It’s very loose-weave.
The exuberant legs kick-started this composition: puzzling how best to use them, I recalled school-day athletics. I’d excelled at cross-country, and suddenly saw this little bloke hurdling some obstacle, deliriously happy having escaped his classroom prison.
A cheese-shaped wedge of driftwood offered appropriate presentation. A nugget of a body, rounded by pebbledash, provided just the right scale to set off two swinging arms and support a head of great personality, a bit like his brother, ‘Sea Gipsy’.
Finding the two legs as one piece was a true gift. A further four items, in scale, were then required. One can understand why such constructions are rare. I’m not sure what or where his hat came from; perhaps a tiny remnant of dishcloth? It’s very loose-weave.
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Only the second figure I have made (‘Keeping Fat’, 2012 Exhibition, was the first).
The exuberant legs kick-started this composition: puzzling how best to use them, I recalled school-day athletics. I’d excelled at cross-country, and suddenly saw this little bloke hurdling some obstacle, deliriously happy having escaped his classroom prison.
A cheese-shaped wedge of driftwood offered appropriate presentation. A nugget of a body, rounded by pebbledash, provided just the right scale to set off two swinging arms and support a head of great personality, a bit like his brother, ‘Sea Gipsy’.
Finding the two legs as one piece was a true gift. A further four items, in scale, were then required. One can understand why such constructions are rare. I’m not sure what or where his hat came from; perhaps a tiny remnant of dishcloth? It’s very loose-weave.
The exuberant legs kick-started this composition: puzzling how best to use them, I recalled school-day athletics. I’d excelled at cross-country, and suddenly saw this little bloke hurdling some obstacle, deliriously happy having escaped his classroom prison.
A cheese-shaped wedge of driftwood offered appropriate presentation. A nugget of a body, rounded by pebbledash, provided just the right scale to set off two swinging arms and support a head of great personality, a bit like his brother, ‘Sea Gipsy’.
Finding the two legs as one piece was a true gift. A further four items, in scale, were then required. One can understand why such constructions are rare. I’m not sure what or where his hat came from; perhaps a tiny remnant of dishcloth? It’s very loose-weave.
