Black Rhinoceros Installation
Stoneware
I have barely just started this one. . .
I wanted to make this piece after seeing a series of game heads stored in a library back room in Tennessee. The heads were horrid enough on their own, but they were made even more pathetic in the dry, air-conditioned air as the skins split and the threads began to unravel.
The next step for the sculpture will be to make a multi-part press mold of the head. A 1/2" layer of black clay will then be pressed into the assembled mold, followed by a layer of plaster. The head will then be mounted on the wall as the clay shrinks against plaster, cracking and peeling like dried skin.
Below the
head, two sculpted rhino feet will stand, hollow, and
filled with spoiling milk.
2003