Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Troubles with Bubbles...

...is that they're difficult to carve. 
 Here's a comparison picture from 2 weeks ago of my Bubble Bench...
and what it looks like today.
 This is the back view.
 There's a meditation technique that encourages people to pop thought bubbles as they form.  The concept behind this piece is: don't worry, pop those bubbles.
 Early on Monday the 17th, it snowed about 3 inches.
... my 'outdoor' rock collection (I think...)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the incongruity of stone bubbles!

don lawler said...

Thanks! That's 1 of 2 aspects that I'm trying to put forward in this design: attempting to create variety of sizes without any apparent pattern, and to create deep shadows between the spherical forms. Harder than I thought it'd be...