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Thursday, September 25, 2014

Mystery Mammal WIP

Finished Doglion sculpture

The slab roller is used to roll clay out into flattened slabs and our slab roller is not currently functioning.  Almost everything that I make requires slabs.  I've become dependent on The Machines.  Fortunately, I had a few projects planned that didn't require slabs of clay.  One of them is an aberrant interpretation of this strange object I bought in a dollar store in Dunellen, NJ in the late nineties.  It's clearly a mammal of some kind and it has a friendly, dog-like expression, but it has no ears and it appears to have a mane of dreadlocks.  Is it a dog?  Is it a lion?


With the source object:



The doglion object from New Jersey: