The presence of tides with scent of kelp and seaweed speak of an ocean’s edge.
Add these particular mosses, lichens, and nearby evergreens stunted by salt spray, and more precisely the location is Kiley’s Cove, Roddickton, NL on the North Atlantic Ocean.
The area features an in-draught of sea in the relative shelter of, and mid-way along a long, narrow bay with today a calm benevolent morning wind at zephyr stage.
A memory cell whispers, “seize the scene.”
My obsession with my little sculpture continues.
The bone, in its original state, came from a pot-roast so for this portrait shoot of it I’ve taken it back to a ceramic plate with cutlery and table mat to carry the suggestion that the eyes still find it delectable.
If you have not read elsewhere in this blog, I do wish you to know my diet in recent decades is mostly plant-based.
Fillière © Apr 15, 2018
A moment in time, a decade ago: Surreal summer image from a passing thunderstorm.
House, tree, and north-side neighbour, having each spent its/his every physical resource, have each, by time, at different times in the past decade, now been removed.
My eyes, and my camera, were entertained, and miss the J.K. Rowling effect of that earlier full-blown winter roof-line with its magnificently gnarled, pruned, decrepit maple fingers / hands / arms choreographing the full range of winter skies: a Harry Potter house with raccoons and bats; a wonderful wonky-eyed tree.
The small glass bowl helps to frame and give scale to this exquisite bone sculpture.
The sculpture itself is slightly larger the photo, even though it appears to contain as much coiled energy as a life-sized figure might contain.
Fillière © 3 15 2018
This extraordinary find, a vertebrae from a pot-roast, emerged pretty much as is from the carving up of that roast at a dinner table long years before I had decided to choose a vegetarian diet. The butcher’s part in the shaping of this one-armed Winged Victory Venus is evident in the exquisite chops he made in the trimming of the roast on its left side, its lower front facet, and provide a sitting base, all with accidental and absolutely impeccable placement.
My addition was to recognize the perfection of the shape and form of the piece, and to limit my intervention and claim to ownership to the addition of texture by scratching the bone and rubbing pigments into the scratches. It is a found art masterpiece that sits easily into the palm of one hand.
Fillière © 2 17 2018
Fillière © 1 28 2018
A bathroom window ledge cut-glass object, simple, light filled, grand.
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