I'm a Sculpturer
As a child I was good with sculpting things out of Plasticine clay and would always try to do better on my next creation. It was, as I said, the farm worker's children that showed me how to sculpt clay oxen and such. My own clay sculptures was but the beginning.
It was by accident that I found the medium that worked for my sculptures. As I always look out for alternative ways to do things and believe in second chances, I like to reuse materials.
At that stage of finding my new medium for sculpting, I was doing Direct Marketing, when I entered an Engineering Workshop and saw how they casts some of the gears they make. It was massive gears and the heat was noticeable, but the smell of melting iron is a smell I will never forget. After watching the process, I noted the prepared sand boxes with the compacted sand and the forms of the new gears to be cast. The finished, very hot casts was pulled aside to cool off before they break loose the fused sand around it. It was in amazement that I was looking at that pieces of fused together sand. What do they do with it? It becames waste.
My mind was jumping onto an idea. Sandstone. I asked if they have some of it and if I can load a few blocks in my car. I was given the go ahead and had my first sculpting material.
As I feel my way around the rough edges, touching it and find the soft spots on it where it did not fuse together, I start to sculpt it. The forms was rough and I end up with a torso of a man, stocky and very chiseled. I was so proud of my first stone sculpture, that it did not matter if it was not perfect. If it looked like a stone giant in today's games, it was fine. It was a sturdy bookshelf weight and was adding interest to the bookshelf.
The other sculptures that followed was more feminine as you can see from the photo's below and on top.
