Flight

For a while now, I've been trying to figure out ways to make sculptures that look like they are defying gravity. I like the idea of flight, and the interpretations it can have in a piece of art such as freedom or escape, and I like the challenge of designing and sculpting such a piece.

For example, I was working on this study during Christmas time (hence the tree in the background). 

In real life, the hand would be holding up the cloth, but in a sculpture, the clay that looks like a cloth is holding up the clay that looks like a hand. I've just got to manipulate the cloth so it looks light and airy then it seems more like the hand is floating.

This other piece doesn't have quite as much clay holding it up and it was a bit more tricky to make it structurally sound, but the idea is still there.

I don't know yet how I want to finish this sculpture so it's still in it's orange terracotta state. 

I'm still playing with the idea and I've planned out a sculpture that will hopefully be a better illusion of flight than either of these two. Hopefully I can make it work.

Oh, and here are a couple links to artists who cast their art in bronze or other materials which are better suited to the idea. I'm content, though, for the time being, to make mine out of terracotta.

 Michael James Talbot

Tim Bruckner

That's all for now!