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peace pigeon - pareidolia
found object - stone
10” X 6” X4”
Pareidolia- a psychological phenomenon when the mind perceives a familiar pattern where non exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
http://glasstire.com/2018/02/26/first-sculpture-handaxe-to-figure-stone-at-the-nasher/
4 more. I now have a total of 12. By May I plan on having 16. I need to get cracking.
The last thing I need is to have the sculpture fall on me while I am working on applying the concrete. Those violin playing fingers would surely put a hole in my skull.
First I have started stuffing the legs of the armature with paper. The paper will keep the concrete from falling through the lath to the floor.
The lower part of the legs will be mostly solid for balance. The rest of the body will not be solid
Detail of the armature stuffed with newspaper.
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I have, (actually my husband Curtis helped) me attach the sculpture to a piece of plywood and attached the plywood to an 800 lb dolly. I have a piece of plastic over the dolly to keep the concrete off the plywood. The dolly will allow me to gently move it if I need to while applying the concrete and will make it very difficult to tip over.
half stuffed and secured to the 800 lb. dolly that is covered in plastic. .
Detail of the open chest area that I am using to get the paper inside the piece.
End of the day- it is99% ready to for me to apply the Concrete.
instagrams works 🙂
Thank you Voyage Houston for taking the time to give me and other Houston artists a shout out in this week's publication. I am always learning new things about my favorite city when I check out the articles.
Thank you Voyage Houston for taking the time to give me and other Houston artists a shout out in this week's publication. I am always learning new things about my favorite city when I check out the articles.
I pruned his shoulders back again. I would like to have plenty of space to create arm movement and the energy created by the music with the baling wire and wire cloth.
Cutting down the shoulders for a second time.
Pruning his left shoulder
I have also decided to cut the armature on the left side of his face leaving room to create volum and movement with the wire.
And a little facial reconstruction.
There was a piece of armature that the violin bumped on his chest, I cut it so I can have more room to maneuver the violin.
chest cut apart
I will live with it over night and see if I need to prune a little more in the morning.
Slurry only
slurry only
the slurry is dry
Dip # 2 slurry and Fine silica
rebar
Lath
Plaster and wire
I continue to consider and reconsider what to cover the armature of “score” with plaster or Concrete. In order to help me decide I did this small piece to see how the various wires I looked/worked with plaster.
Artist Shangyi Yu http://www.shangyihua.com/ text me this morning that today in the Chinese New Year- year of the dog. The top Chinese words are great good luck in dog year.
😍🤗
image from Shangyi http://www.shangyihua.com/
I could not be more excited to celebrate Dogs all year.
the road - two cyclist I
the road - two cyclist II
the road two cyclist III
the road VI two cyclist
the road - Randy and Ben (number V in the series of two)
the road - two cyclist VI
handaxe pigeons
Voyage Houston reached out to me regarding my stand alone piece of the human chain - See the email below.
Hi Cindee Klement,
Just saw this post on Instagram and absolutely LOVED it!
https://www.instagram.com/p/Be4PSIqFEWi/?taken-by=cindeeklementart
Can we feature this shot and credit you? I think our readers would love seeing your work and learning more about you.
Thanks and happy a great week!
Cheers,
Leo
And the answer is - yes please do, as I try to contain my excitement.
I hope this pans out,
small steps
While working on my human chain for the Galveston beach home, I did this stand alone piece.
It would have been the third piece of five in the chain, but it has a different feel to it. As a result, I did another third piece and will keep this one as a stand alone.
Many thanks to Hollywood Framing on Bissonnet for donating the beautiful frame for this piece, with museum glass. It will be auctioned off on March 23rd at the Rice University 2018 Friends of Fondren Library Gala.
“The road- father and son I”
30” X 22”
water color monotype
I am making a human chain for a beautiful home on the beach in Galveston. The home is professionally decorated in very specific neutral whites with shades of grey, beige and a drop of the magenta you find in oysters, sometimes. The sun in Galveston is very bright and veils the room in light which turns most neutrals green.
I did one series last week testing out the colors and sure enough the first three in the series have too much yellow; they look much greener in the room. The last two in the series looked great. My plan is to put a few chains together in different hues and run down to Galveston and see what looks the best in the Galveston Light. In the end having a few variations might workout nicely for a human chain lenticular.
I am still attaching lath. Today I worked on the left hand and forearm, the face and head. Attaching only enough to give me something to grip the Concrete. Sone of the rebar will be exposed.
left hand
left side of face
right side of the head
looking at this image the head looks weirdly shaped. I will have to love k at that tomorrow.
The shoes-
I have not decided what is the best way to go obiut the shoes. They are crucial for stabilizing the piece.
left foot armature
right foot armatur.
Friday January 26th I received an email via my website from Gene Fowler. I am horrible with names, I knew his name but could not place it. A quick google and ........he wrote an article in Glasstire that I actually blogged about recently. http://www.cindeeklement.com/blog/2017/11/12/why-are-some-people-ready-why-do-some-people-know-the-moment
You can only imagine the excitement I felt when I put 2 and 2 together.
Screenshot of the email
Below I have pasted the paragraph and a link to article that touched me.
“The title That Day underscores the viewer’s sense of being there beside the photographer and the way in which the captured moment remains ever fresh in the image, some of which were made as early as 1979. That was the year when Dallas-based Wilson began assisting Richard Avedon with his own six-year photography project, In The American West. Describing Avedon’s portraiture process in her 2004 book, Avedon At Work In The American West, Wilson noted that he would wait for what Eudora Welty called “a story teller’s truth… the moment in which people reveal themselves. You have to be ready, in yourself; you have to know the moment when you see it.” “
http://glasstire.com/2017/11/12/laura-wilsons-that-day-pictures-in-the-american-west/
He called me Monday and I rambled on about hats and their truth, their stories and the moment I was ready to hear their stories.
I am sure that he is interviewing several artist regarding their work in the Texas airports. The hope to make the cut.
