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My specialty is figurative sculpture, and prop-making...
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Enter the world of Cat's Creatures, a series of characters entwined with fiction. |
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See St. Dracula, a recent prop I made that was featured in an independent film. |
Sculpture is something that I've done since I was a tiny person, forever storytelling with created characters and the imaginary worlds from whence they came. I populated an old doll-house with all manner of strange denizens in colored plasticene, created an elaborate cutaway diorama of the ribald life aboard a pirate ship, executed complex paper-folding puppet projects, designed wild architectures on other planets...I was forever breathing the complexities of life and personality into new characters. (And treating my friends and family to hours-long improvisational musical theater productions...Sorry, guys.)
As an adult, I did a couple of years in graduate school at the Savannah College of Art and Design, working in animation and 3D computer modeling; my love for storytelling and character design only grew. Brimming with ideas, I immediately went to work in clay and writing, creating a series of characters from an imaginary town, in an imaginary society that comments, sometimes uncomfortably, on our own cultural struggles...
The result was: Cat's Creatures, through which I spent some very rewarding and gruelling years focussed on this project. Alas, life sometimes gets in the way of more gratifying pursuits, and I've since moved into other areas of interest, but please do let me know what you think. Some items are still available, at very special request. And there is a book in the works, yes indeed, if ever I have time.
These days, I've enjoyed using my sculptural abilities to create props for film. I recently created St. Dracula, a large statue reminiscent of those I loved in the Gothic cathedrals of France; he presided over a vampire's sanctuary in a local feature film...in which I also kicked some serious bootay, by the way, playing a sword-wielding, burlesque-dancing vampire spy...in a Barbarella outfit (what else?). |