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(I've often left short poems on the images that people post here - little bits that just sort of bubble up when I see the beauty and depth and how people have poured their hearts into their art here. Some have asked me to collect these fragments, so I'm trying to see how this works...)
I've been following Felicia's work for some time, and she never ceases to amaze me with her photos. Go forth and leave comments for her!
deep inside
the wild lives
I hold it back
keep in in check
tell it to be quiet
say, this isn't the time...
but it's there
its breath hot on the back of my neck
scratching at the door of my heart
whimpering to be let out
to tear and run
to jump and scream
to feel the sun on my flesh
to roll around in mud and puddles
to see things it has never seen before
to live.
I've been following Felicia's work for some time, and she never ceases to amaze me with her photos. Go forth and leave comments for her!
deep inside
the wild lives
I hold it back
keep in in check
tell it to be quiet
say, this isn't the time...
but it's there
its breath hot on the back of my neck
scratching at the door of my heart
whimpering to be let out
to tear and run
to jump and scream
to feel the sun on my flesh
to roll around in mud and puddles
to see things it has never seen before
to live.
Arms and fingers and legs, oh my!
I have always been fascinated by how our bodies, and in particular, our arms and shoulders, silently communicate our thoughts and emotions. Working with clay brings us to the fact that the arms are the most slender part of the body, and thus pose some serious technical issues when we create a composition. One of the first things people ask is whether I use wires or some sort or armature. There are some materials where an armature can be helpful, for example, molding in wax to create a sculpture in bronze, or using some of the modern polymer clay bodies, but unfortunately, natural clay shrinks during drying and firing. This can be reduced by the use of either grog, or “paper clay”, which uses paper or cellulose fibers mixed with the clay to reduce shrinkage. However, with most clay bodies, a fixed armature causes the figure to crack apart as the drying clay pulls away. However, there are some other useful tricks to creating fluid, graceful arms. I often start out by building the
Spam Bot accounts?
I've been noticing an increase of spam "likes" on comments I've made on other people's posts. When I look at the account, they are obviously bot accounts, with nothing more than a link to an online dating site or similar, and a few hundred "likes" on various people's comments, as a way of sucking in traffic.
I'd like to report the accounts, but unfortunately, they seem to have found a weak spot in the system. You can report a comment, or maybe even a posting as "spam" or otherwise offensive, but I haven't found a way to mark the "like" they made on a comment, or the account itself as a bot. I've looked in both Eclipse and the traditional
WiX Sites?
So, just ran across the newest Beta feature -- creating a personal gallery Web site using the WiX platform, and an integrated interface between your Featured gallery on DA, with the gallery on the WiX site. Pretty cool (not to mention a pretty slick advertising ploy to coax you into building a full blown, paid-for account through the WiX platform), and seems to work well. Obviously, they want you to buy a full domain name through them, but for the time being, it seems to work reasonably well (at least for testing) using their default domain. Link to my current site is: https://charles-tryon-gmail-com.wixsite.com/tryonsculpturearts One apparent gotcha though... It's no secret that a good percentage of my figure sculptures are tagged with the "mild nudity" adult content flag. One of the coolest features of the integration is the fact that it sets up an automatic feed from your "Featured" folder to the main gallery in the WiX site. However, it appears to filter out any
500 Deviations
Well, just added a new deviation here, updating a WIP image I submitted some time ago with the final photo of the finished piece that I finally got around to taking. Noticed that this post put me at the 500 mark! Not sure if that means anything or not... but it was interesting. A milestone at least.
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Beautiful words and image!