A Fairy Herald, underway. She's in Premier air-dry clay, with washi paper:
Uptdated Fairy Herald
Happy 2014, Kind Visitors!
A Bright New Year to You
With hope for a more peaceable kingdom all around, kindness and empathy, compassion and the seeing heart.
A Bright Season and Merry Christmas!
Another East of the Sun, West of the Moon
A piece inspired by the work of Kay Nielsen, whose illustrations I discovered as a small child. In Premier air dry clay, about 14.5 inches tall:
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
The Snow Maiden
Another wonderful Russian being. I wanted to present her in the act of melting:
Red Roses
Harpy face
Venetian Harpy, in progress
She's in air-dry clays. Her surface is mostly in "Premier," which is very smooth and easily formed. Back view:Side view
Midwinter
If each day falls
inside each night,
there exits a well
where clarity is imprisoned
We need to sit on the edge
of the well of darkness
and fish for fallen light
with patience.
~ Pablo Neruda
Blue Muse
Angel Painted
Fiat Lux
Angel underway:
(The ribbons behind the ears of Eastern angels always flutter, to indicate they perpetually hear the whisper of God.)
And, with thanks to Lisa S., who sent it way long ago:
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
~ 'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver