Group title: First Dance
Individual pieces: Morning (Lord of the Dance), Evening (The Magician), Midnight (In Times of Peril)
Bronze, edition of 12, 2017
32 cm /12.5″, 38 cm /15″ & 27 cm /10.5″ tall
(Pic from before I put colour on the birds and mask)
So evocative (and wonderfully, simply photographed) – primitive and powerful little shadow-creatures. The patinas on mask and birds are so effective, and the shapes they make together when dancing all three in a circle are weird and wonderful.
You made me say “wonderful” twice!
:3
I have a bit of a thing for prehistoric art — cave painters of yore were an inspiration for these. I do see them as very early beings — that could always come back as shadows on a wall.
(Re the photos, I used PVC sheet for the backdrop — it’s white, which is possibly not the best colour, but it seems to work fairly well and can be cleaned with shampoo!)
These are joyous.
‘Cause they’re at the beginning