I didn’t know how to start. I didn’t know what to expect. My first attempt at a human head. Made up from pictures and imagination. Life-sized and made with clay. I think it worked. This was 3 years ago. I have never tried creating another. I want to… but I’m back at “I don’t know how to start”. 
I never think to give names to my creations. Perhaps if I did give names it would lead people into seeing them as I see them. But it’s so interesting and fun listening to what different backgrounds and experiences other people bring to what they see and their differing views on what is essentially the same piece of art. Maybe that’s what is so captivating about art – everyone sees, listens, reads their different lives into it. Too many questions. I wish I could think clearly enough to come up with some answers. I think, if it had a name, it would be “Walkabout”. What do you see?
The man with no name
29 Friday May 2015
Posted in Art and Sculpture, Thoughts
Finding Something from Nothing 
I can’t think of a name, but I see someone who really, really wants to find and answer to something, and who listens carefully and who thinks a lot. A mix of contemplating and problem solving. It’s a face I trust.
If this was your first head, I can’t wait to see more of them coming. If you don’t know how to start, perhaps you can find a way to just “continue”?
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I see an excellent sculpture, and I see deep contemplation; but he has to be called Clint
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As this was your first piece and it turned out so well, you might be worried that you cannot do it so well again, but if you just start I’m sure you’ll see that it wasn’t just a happy accident and that you can make another good one, it’s wonderful!
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I’m not sure if ‘happy accident’ is the right expression, but I don’t know the right one.
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Thank you for your wise words. I think I will try again when I have finished my current project.
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“Happy accident” is probably close to the truth – I never know what will happen when I start. Sometimes good, sometimes not so good. Maybe I could write a post on things that didn’t work out so well (or more usually, I don’t complete).
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Names come so easily and I appreciate that you don’t assign one. That leaves the door wide open for me to experience it and allow the art to tell me its story. I do hope that you create another, and another… Léa
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Wow. Still thinking…. I’m speachless 😉 Almost, anyway. I want to know what’s on his mind. Love it!
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Thank you, you are very kind. I never wondered what he was thinking, but you and derrickjknight said he looks like he is thinking.
Maybe he is wondering who you are when you look at him. Maybe he is searching for someone or somewhere.
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Wonderful, you must make another and just enjoy making it!
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I did enjoy making it 🙂 but the first step is sometimes the hardest.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” 🙂
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Walkabout surprised me as I was thinking indigenous all the pain a lost heritage.
It shows a lot of talent hope you can get inspired and create more.
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Starting is often the silliest reason we don’t – you are not alone. You have to step forward & start – not looking for excellence every time. Often we get Beginner’s Luck – and inside we think & know the 2nd effort must have more. I think that is where we stop. You started on a great note – keep going. I am not as busy in the summer – my task is to be my most creative then & I plan to do it in spades this year. No more putting off doing. ~ Good luck to you 🙂
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gosh he’s just amazing – hope very much you do more!
love that you don’t think to give names to your creations, i’m similar in that way – would rather people see what they see and have their experience than have them be influenced by the name i chose. 🙂 have to say again, really love this, he’s so fantastic!
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Hmmm… now maybe I shouldn’t have given it a name. Actually, Jack, you’re spot on with what was in my mind when I started creating this piece.
But I like everyone’s interpretations of this man, the different thoughts and visions of other people make the whole project bigger than the sum of the parts.
And the man sits on a shelf at home still thinking about the thousands of years leading up to you and him looking at each other and wondering who each of you are.
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One of the things I struggle with is whether to repeat something to get better and better at it… or to try something new each time. So many ways of creating things and… I was going to say “so little time”, but that’s ridiculous! Enjoy the moment 🙂
Thank you for your encouragement.
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I’m really humbled by people’s encouragement on this blog. I’m still surprised when anyone likes what I’ve created – the intention was for me to like what I created and I’d not thought about sharing them. Hope it doesn’t change what I’m doing on the occasional day off work!
Anyway, thank you for your kind words 🙂
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Actually the next piece I’m working on has some similarities with some of your work https://artinstructor.wordpress.com/
It is a wire, plaster bandage and clay strange (I mean worryingly strange haha) sculpture of a conversation taking place. Might be finished in a week or two.
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He´s excellent. He very much looks like a man I know called Ruari.
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Thank you :o) Nice to know he looks like someone real. Of course, he was always real in my mind but other people couldn’t see him until I made something tangible for them to look at. Now that sounds strange…
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Struggle: Do more of one theme? – yes I used to avoid this one by working on a variety of images in a theme [snowdscapes – variety of locations and lighting], Recently I have experienced more value from doing a a 2nd or 3rd try at an image.The sparrow image is an example – see: https://artinstructor.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/song-sparrows-ink/
I get freer as I go when I don’t rework the composition and image only to explore other issues – texture, colour, delicacy, tones, saturation, medium. I hated repetition but now I allow myself to go there, knowing it won’t be an exact copy anyway.
See 2 of 5 images I did with a Ram Skull image: https://artinstructor.wordpress.com/2014/06/19/acrylic-ink-paint/ & https://artinstructor.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/ink-dry-brush-wet/
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Not bad at all, don’t hesitate, if you feel like doing something, just throw yourself at it, and you will find a way I promise! Hesitation only leads to postponement, wich leads to …nothing 😦
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I think you are telling me something I recognise – Hesitation! So easy to make an excuse and not do anything. I shall turn that computer off and do something creative. Thank you. So many different things to try! 🙂
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