"Dreamtime" - 2011

I actually built this piece earlier this year - it's taken me a while to post it here. It was featured this Spring at the Boston Cyberarts Festival in Boston, Mass. After completing "Return to Dreamland", I wanted to explore further the idea of a kinetic figure interacting with sand. I wanted to make a figure combing through the sand, so I decided to have her sitting on a rotating platform. This piece is sold. I didn't take as many in-progress pictures this time, but here are the ones I have....... Her rake-like hand.   

 Her arm carved and ready for paint.

 

 Her body in-progress. I think this is the first time I've done a figure in this position. I've done a few figure sitting before, but not sitting on the ground like this.

 

Her head.

                             

Her body right before I assemble and dress her.

                     

The background for the piece is actually a couple of 'paint-by-numbers' landscape paintings that I tore up and decoupaged back together. I then painted over the whole thing with washes of color.

Photo by Gregory Campbell.

   

The movie.... watch full screen. 

  

A close-up of her hand moving through the sand.

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Thanks for looking!

tom