Furious Ape Phallic Monster

I made a press mold from the face of a massive gorilla action figure years ago and it's still serving me well.

Six-Legged Phallic Monster

I'm not happy with how the glaze came out on this one.  I was hoping for a matte gray with some green tones and it came out an annoying glossy brown.  I attempted to add a coat of green glaze and refire, but it had no effect.

Snail-Head Phallic Scupture

Rhinoceros-Headed Phallic Sculpture

This is a phallic sculpture with a rhinoceros head.  This piece cracked in the kiln but I glazed it anyway.  It also has a small compartment to hold ketchup or for use as an ashtray.

Phallic Monster #7

This is #7 in a series of penis-shaped beasts.  This one has a loose-fitting lid which opens up to reveal a small compartment.

Phallic Monster #6

This is a primitive sculpture of a creature with a penis for its head and tail.  The Etruscan bronze sculpture it's modeled after also has an erection where you would expect to find one, but this one is in a crouching position and I couldn't fit it in.  The top comes off to reveal a secret compartment.

Large Phallic Pot

This is a slab pot 13.5 inches tall in the shape of an exaggerated human male organ of procreation. Just for reference, there is a whole phylum of marine worms called priapulids (meaning penis shaped) which have been around since the Cambrian period, many hundreds of millions of years before human beings and human male penises. The fruiting bodies of many kinds of fungi have also been known to use a similar shape.

This piece is intended for ritual use in modern fertility cults or as a container to hold cookies.

Phallic Object 4

This is my fourth animal-like phallic sculpture.  This is another donation to my friend's auction, along with the Vulva Chamsa.  It's hollow and has a lid which doesn't fit that well.  I'm considering securing it with velcro, although I'm not usually one to introduce multimedia elements to clay pieces.

Penis Monster 3

This is the third in a series of penis-shaped creatures. Elsewhere I'm just calling them "Phallic Objects" but here I feel comfortable enough to refer to them as "Penis Monsters."

Penis Monster 2

This is the second in a series of dog-like creatures shaped like erect penises with erections and erect penises for tails.




The erections's erection:

Penis Monster

This is a phallic dog-like creature based on the Etruscan bronze object seen below. At the studio, it's been named the Horn Dog and I'm flattered that some people thought it shouldn't be placed where children might see it. It was moved directly from the glaze kiln to my shelf. This is a good thing and it makes me think that I should incorporate phallic images into most or all of my future work. It was made as a commission, although not the kind for which I will necessarily get paid. Also, someone at the studio offered to buy it. So in addition to casual Judaica, here is my next avenue of income from clay objects: reproductions of ancient erotic art.








I haven't been able to find a lot of information about the original object online  It's an Etruscan bronze sculpture dating from the 4th Century B.C.E. 

Unhappy Penis Column

I've been saving this strange and embarrassing clay object for a special day and today is that day. I would like to make it clear that I didn't sit down at the pottery studio one day in 2009 and say, "I'm going to make an unhappy penis column." It just happened.

Now, let us never speak of this again.