Superior Transfiguration
Paperclay, glazes with acrylics
22" x 22" x 16"
2012
I have been experimenting with paperclay, glazes and acrylic paints this past year, exploring colour and texture now that my forms are developed.
This began as a 3" maquette/clay sketch idea: I imagined a figure in the sunset - a large angel, suspended hidden on the water of a sunset. The vivid sunsets of Lake Superior, where I grew up, always live in me.
This month, when I completed this large sculpture, I placed it on some sand from my beach at Sand Bay, (near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario).
When the figure was kneeling on the sand, the context changed to a person facing a sunset!
Brillance reflected on its wings. Not the usual brilliance of white light that I had always seen, but a multi-coloured, prismatic brillance: In the Presence of Our God, that we kneel, will kneel.
With clay and colour, texture and form I am enjoying making more visible Our Brilliant God:
Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
