The Landing Broken Nose
Years ago I finished carving a stone piece called The Landing that needed a base which I made out of bronze. A few years after that I entered an art show called "30 in 30". The show consisted of artists picking up, completing and returning 30 boards in 30 days. Needing subjects to paint, I choose the bronze base for the stone piece as one of the subjects. The painting didn't sell but I thought the image would make a great mask carved out of wood.
Years earlier, I acquired a 3 foot section of a tree that had been cut down as part of a high school remodel. I split the wood in half and used one of the halves for this piece: The Landing-Broken Nose.
The notion of the mask having a broken nose was adopted from both the bronze base and the painting I made of it. Carving the wood mask became a rather complicated affair of weaving strands of the mask's nose in and out of each other and imaging and carving wood planks making up the support for the strands being broken in the nose. There is also a darker patch on the right hand side of the nose, simulating bruising. I achieved this by roughing out the carving, let it sit, exposed to the sun and then finish carving the piece, but not touching that bruised area. It is therefore darker and will remain darker than the rest of the piece, regardless of how much the whole piece darkens with time and exposure to sunlight.
36" x 16" x 20"
Red Cedar, Ebony
$1,500.00
Years earlier, I acquired a 3 foot section of a tree that had been cut down as part of a high school remodel. I split the wood in half and used one of the halves for this piece: The Landing-Broken Nose.
The notion of the mask having a broken nose was adopted from both the bronze base and the painting I made of it. Carving the wood mask became a rather complicated affair of weaving strands of the mask's nose in and out of each other and imaging and carving wood planks making up the support for the strands being broken in the nose. There is also a darker patch on the right hand side of the nose, simulating bruising. I achieved this by roughing out the carving, let it sit, exposed to the sun and then finish carving the piece, but not touching that bruised area. It is therefore darker and will remain darker than the rest of the piece, regardless of how much the whole piece darkens with time and exposure to sunlight.
36" x 16" x 20"
Red Cedar, Ebony
$1,500.00