i must say, you definitely captured ancient, feminine, and mystical.

i love it. shes not what you would really consider 'beautiful' by todays common standards, but she gives the impression that she is gorgeous and elegant in her element of her culture, what ever it may be.

atlantis or somthing maybe.

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As per usual, more wonderful stuff. I know you used a Mayan lady as your inspiration for this piece, but it reminds me very much of the mycenean & pre Hellenistic greek masks used for theatre, entombment, etc. Out of the 4 you posted (repose 1 &2, and opposittes) I think I like this best. Stylistically I prefer your more modern pieces such as repose, etc. as a bit of a bar to aim for myself, but this has a sense of age and history to it (lol, not just because it's one of your earlier pieces). It has the historical feel of ancient greece (to me), a different aesthetic of beauty divergent from what we consider the norm (as stated by the smart cat "quarkenzyme" who posted before me) & made with and of more modern contemporary materials and applictions. Very dimensional.

Now for the "28 year old ex-GI" response: "Dude! This rawks! And dude! like, you rawk!" lol.

(hey, it wouldn't be 1 of my comments if it didn't:
a. ramble
b.show some conscientiousness
c.sound increbidly silly and/or trite.)

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Thank you quarkenzyme,
You caught the gist of it...
I might do that piece differently today of course.
I think that was my first life size head in steel.
I would make her somewhat more feminine and as you say,a bit more beautiful today,with maybe some tribal jewelry or something.
But it does have a certain power to it ,which even in my novice stage as a sculptor ,I think I accomplished. Thank you for your comments...

This is nice but I must say you've come a long way. I much prefer your more recent stuff.

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Ex -Gi...?
Holy shit friend,thank you ...for your service...

Your visual perceptions are spot on.
I was profoundly affected by the Greek sculptures of antiquity.
My father took the WHOLE family on an epic journey throughout all of Greece in 1966.
He and I had journals for sketching and I had another for writing.We stopped at all the major archaeological sites and museums.
In those days the sculptures and sites themselves were still accessible close up and not protected by barriers, fences etc.
I wandered unescorted through Mycenae as well as the Palace of Knossos on Crete,the Parthenon in Athens,Delphi,Olympia.... Minoan art especially had a profound affect on me at the time...My father (who was a master sculptor),was an incredible teacher in his own right,and did not talk down to me just because I was only 11 years old. Many advanced concepts were discussed freely,such as "action at rest","contraposto",and "artistic license".

Yes Marsha,
ME too...LOL
But you have to walk before you can run...

LOL, thank your congressman. Seriously, the army isn't all the heroics they make it out to be (at least when I was active. NOW though..... another meat grinder for the empirial sausage machine. ) Anyway on lighter notes, sounds like a hell of a trip. I'm half Greek myself so that aspect of history and culture was always positively reinforced through family get togethers, cuisine, holidays etc. your father sounds alot like how my grandfather was. He was an actuary, but always had an appreciation for art, literature and all aspects of the moving mind. But even when I was a kid I think he might've raised his voice once in disagreement over some damn fool thing I did, but it was always as an adult, not a child. Consequently because of all this, I'm probably the only 28 year old you'll meet who knows who the authoress Edith Hamilton is & what she wrote (The Greek Way, Mythology, The Roman way) who isn't in cultural studies or anthropology, etc. I grew up on all that. Still do need to go to greece though.

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"Oh, verdigrisjester? that fool? lemme tell ya, about as deep as a mud puddle with half the clarity. Real winning combination, doncha' think?" -The jester on himself

Yes you do,
Since it's your heritage.
The Iliad and the Odyssey were the first stories read to me and the Odyssey is still my favorite ...

Yeah, the Odyssey ranks up there. Although I was always more preferential to medusa, perseus, And the chimaera. Now that would be a cool house cat. Oh well, since I can't go to the islands, I'll have to make some baklava and souvlaki, lol.

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"Oh, verdigrisjester? that fool? lemme tell ya, about as deep as a mud puddle with half the clarity. Real winning combination, doncha' think?" -The jester on himself