Curl. 2020 White alabaster, 7 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ x 3 1/2″. $800
When I started working with Curl I had just had a carving fall apart. I thought I would go back to carving sails. Maybe a spinnaker this time! But the stone wanted to be more interesting.
Things and Stuff. 2014 Pink alabaster, about 4.5″ cube. $500
Doesn’t have an up or down. This was the second piece I did when I started sculpting again. Since I wanted to re-acquaint myself with chisel, rasp and stone I simply chased the rock and went where it wanted to go. I like where it went.
Swan 2019 White alabaster. 6″ x 8 3/4″ x 8″ $800
White alabaster, sanded down to translucency. This piece wants to be on a dark surface. On a white table it tends to disappear!
Swan started out as ribbons. But as the ribbons got thinner and thinner, people started seeing the swan inside. It took a while before I did, but now… it’s a swan.
Wing 2014 Alabaster. 6″x 5″. In a private collection.
Wing is the product of a one-day class in stone carving taught by Scott Cahaly. It was my first finished stone in 30 years. I’d taken the class just to see if I still wanted to bang rocks for fun. Turns out I do.
I didn’t have too much time at the beginning of the session to plan what I wanted to make the chunk of stone into. It had a hole drilled through that I didn’t want to exploit, so I had to work around it. This is pretty close to what I wanted to achieve in the first place. Pretty close… stone has it’s own way of making its choices known.
Coming About Alabaster, granite base. 7″ x 7″ x 7.5″ 2015 $500
I spent some of the time carving out this stone looking out at Buzzards Bay, and watching sailboats. The piece pivots about… Doesn’t quite spin, but that would be a windmill, and that’s not the intent.