The Scuptors Studio-Artist: Grant Crawford-"Rocking Baby Elephant"
by Grant Crawford
(Grand Forks, B.C., Canada)
Rocking Baby Elephant
"Rocking Baby Elephant" happened when a piece of alabaster I was working on began to rebel. I had been thinking of a couple of doves nestled together, but the 'doves' would not nestle. I thought of Renoir who espoused a philosophy of being like a cork floating in a stream, allowing the current to take you where it would. When I quit struggling with the stone, the 'doves' wings turned out to be the elephant's ears! The rest followed. The little elephant just seemed to pop out of the stone. So, I gave up the struggle, and the elephant won! Yours, Grant Crawford
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