you can see more of her work at coppercrowstudio.blogspot.com.
the workshop was an all day lesson in creating assemblage santos from recycled objects.
if you are not familiar with santos dolls, let me give you my take on an explanation.
santos (translation: "saints") are folk art dolls which are reminiscent of creche figures.
as i understand it, they were brought by the spaniards in the 17th century to use as teaching tools
in explaining catholicism to natives. they were also used in home altars.
we began the workshop by creating the heads for the santos. we used porcelain dolls and sculpted over them with sculpey, then baked them in the oven.
"baking heads"....a new rock band?
pieces that i chose to make my santos sculpture
Levon....his body an old wooden pipe organ piece #100
Gerhardt...full of gears, a key to his heart
and Helen Wheels....with time to spare.
this has been a fun project, a challenge to figure out parts to use, how to attach them securely.
one thing for sure,
i will never look at tools, and parts in the same way.
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