This sculpture is one of a series of pieces in which I have combined a found object (usually a piece of rusty metal) with two figural pieces made from clay. In each scene, the people are interacting with each other in some way, but it is not clear what is going on between them. In fact, the scenario is deliberately ambiguous so that the viewer can create their own interpretation of the narrative. I like the juxtaposition of the raw, rusty metal with the earthy textures and colors of the clay. And it is interesting how my ideas for the works emerge from the found pieces themselves; they suggested what the figures that go with them might look like. Seems like you would start with the human parts of the sculpture, but in this case, the humans turned out to be products of the found objects. Weird, huh?

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