StJTB

CLAY

Sculpture in clay, from a live model. Made in Studio Della Statua, Florence, Italy. (Dec. 2017) Five studio photos of Saint John the Baptist growing from a skeletal clay armature to a full figure raising a shell, long-haired and bearded, against red curtains

VERSIONS

Four Saint John test prints against orange: a white resin figure, black demon legs on a rod above a tiny reclining body, a small black figurine, and a bronze-patina cast various 3d printed versions. (need better photos :p)

SKETCHES

Early ZBrush study for Saint John the Baptist: front and back of a faceless muscular body, its surfaces streaked with rough sculpting strokes an early thought was to make a sort of mirror of his face. may return to this.

REFERENCE

Kiki Smith's bronze fountain figure: a standing nude woman on a pedestal, water trickling from her open hands, photographed against violet lightSideways photo in the Pisa Baptistery: the bronze Saint John the Baptist raising a cross-tipped staff atop the font's spired Gothic canopy Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror: a slender standing woman forms the handle, her upraised arms curving into a papyrus support for the broad golden disc The Piraeus Apollo: an archaic Greek bronze kouros mottled with green patina, standing with both forearms extended, one palm open Copper photogravure plate for Saint John the Baptist held in the light: Auriea's face reflects inside the etched figure's hood, a blue fingernail at the edge