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The short answer is women are more fun to sculpt.
Men are nice to observe. I never saw a pair of biceps in a plain white t-shirt that didn’t appeal to me, for that seems to be masculinity boiled down to a “t” for me. Voices, too. It’s nice to listen to deep voices. Yes, men are nice to observe, and if my husband decided to splurge on my art and hire a male model for me to sculpt, I’d force myself to endure the ordeal, I’m sure.
Yes, men are nice to observe, but women are more fun to sculpt.
Warning, if you have a Y chromosome, let me save you some trouble before you keep reading in hopes of hearing sordid tales and lurid fantasies. . . I don’t sculpt women for sexual reasons.
It took me a months of sly remarks from male friends to figure this out, but the reason I sculpt women is spiritual. Yes, I’m serious. I’ve read books about goddesses, and I’ve chanted mantras from a book about Hindu goddesses. I’m a skeptic about all organized religion, about anything involving higher powers and spirits we cannot quantify with science, but I’m also one of those people who needs spirituality. What a quandary, huh? My solution is to enjoy reading about religions and cultures who worship goddesses (and gods for that matter, but it’s usually the goddesses who attract my attention) and then use that information for inspiration when I’m melting glass. Lately, I’ve been thinking about why I choose the goddesses. It’s the whole idea of empowering females, giving women confidence. I don’t ask for women to be superior to men, that’s not it. What I ask is for all women to feel they are equal in value to the world.
Sculpting a graceful, beautiful, powerful female imparts some of that grace, beauty, and power to me as I form it…and I hope it does the same thing for you as you look at it or hold it. What more reason would I want for sculpting?
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Let's see, big boy torch-check. Boro instead of soft glass-check. Might as well give off mandrel another try even though I failed miserably at it last year when I finally tried it- CHECK.
I made a tiny goddess with no head (ran out of glass because I'd only cut a single rod of clear). Then I made a sun with some funky pretty but more pink than orange Momka's glass encased in more clear. The Momka's is pretty in the middle, but I didn't make it very smooth shaped (it's lopsided as hell, and I usually like a little asymmetry). Aha, but the clear rays extending from the sun, those are sweeeeeeeeeet for a beginner. Then, I made the dragon you see in these pictures.
Yes, enter the dragon, imperfect though he may be! I did it! I broke his legs and wings at the end, but I did it! I tried! I think I'll probably save him forever, even with his broken off leg and wings that are no more. I managed to do a cold punty, which I'd never gotten the hang of doing when I tried off mandrel last year.
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