PTSD healing through sculpture

I started sculpting around the same time I began therapy for PTSD. Here’s what happened in my sculpture unintentionally. These are posted in the order they were completed. Looking back, they are like a journal in clay of the healing process.
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“The Pawn”
“Agony”
“River’s Dawn” -a piece about hope.
“Why?”  [...]

Two kneeling ladies

Here is what I’ve been working on. I will sculpt clothes on the second lady as soon as I figure out what she will be wearing.

Infinity isn’t a number

My son broke this news to me the other night while we were saying our goodnights. We were arguing about something and I used infinity in my argument. He said, “Infinity isn’t a number”.  I didn’t necessarily think of infinity as a number, but I confess I also didn’t declare with any absolution that [...]

Blue skies, slight chance of pain

I daydreamed I was like Michelangelo while painting this mural of clouds on the ceiling of Cinelli’s, an Italian restaurant in Durham last year. I know his Sistine Chapel was much… more. I had just started sculpting and, hey, it was a daydream! 
I had no scaffolding, only a wobbly ladder and I developed a new [...]

Dressing up Faith

 
Here is my second version of Faith. This time she’s clothed.

Confessions of a Dumpster Diver

3-16-06 -I picked the kids up at school today. We were talking about our daily adventures. It took me about 15 minutes to convince the kids I had actually been dumpster diving. After we pulled into the driveway I had to show them what I found in the dumpster as proof I wasn’t pulling their [...]

Exceptional Value of Garbage

 
I just …does this image really need any comment? It’s profound enough on it’s own.
p.s. Thank you to the Museum of History in Raleigh.

Mootisse and Pigasso

  Five to Eight-year-olds had a great time with this paper cut out project at the art center. We made watercolor and oil pastel paintings and while they dried, we read a book called When Pigasso met Mootisse by Nina Laden . The children looked at the cow and pig-themed knock off artwork in this [...]

Indian Summer

Gorgeous 70 degree day at Wrightsville Beach on the North Carolina Coast yesterday. The kids insisted on wearing their bathing suits and testing the icy water. Our dog got one little dog toe in and was totally turned off by the paralyzing cold of the waves but had fun running in the sand. We built [...]

Internal Sunshine of the Gastric Find

  I’m in shock. I never realized I would find a stomach to be this graceful. Here is the larger-than-life ceramic sculpture of a stomach my daughter made for her 7th Grade school science project.
I’m sure she thought I’d lost my marbles when I cut off one leg of my pantyhose, had her fill it with [...]