this is my pregnant baby

I'm quite pround of my first wax sculpture. It is not necessarily the most, but it is sincere and I feel something each time I look at it. It's special. I've even shown it to a few people I trust and have received nice feedback . . . in other words, they were almost shocked to see the result of my first sculpture. How dare they doubt me?

My housemate and I hosted a party recently and he wanted to show off the sculpture. The insecure coke head artist's lawyer turned up his nose at it. The retail queens didn't understand why it was so sticky. I bet they assumed I used it for some sexual purpose.

I start my new wax sculpture next week. This fertility princess I hope to cast in April.

Here's another view:

this is just an embryo

Inspired by a Maya fertility sculpture, I began using wax today. This sticky resin is not as sensual as clay. It doesn't feel as real but we'll see what comes from it. What I will make is a pregnant figure who has very masculine traits. The Maya made sculptures that focused more on the organic nature of form, as if man came from earth itself. While the intricate details involved in making a figurative sculpture are not as important in this type of creation, it's tricky to make it appear as if it had once been alive, or might still be.