more! Wolves and other things...

Well this one is a wolfie. Turns out it's quite hard to photograph velvet. I PVA'd his arms to make them loom over his potential prey.


Smug.


A bit of a sicky sad one, this.

We talked about potential pricing of the beasts in class today.
In Site (the end of year exhibition) we can sell our stuff and the school will only take a small cut compared to what a gallery would. so it's a good opportunity to recover your costs a bit! And let people take away your goodies. Anyway I have always felt that these beasts could find a home with friends other than me. But I didn;t really know if people would pay for them. And I would have to charge what seems like a significant price for something so weeny. I would love to do it, but would you pay for it? like $25 or something?

And if I did charge, I would like to be able to give a portion of the money away, to something I care about. Since it's about children in many ways, I would really like to show my support to some organisation that helps kids. Something to do with stopping family violence, like Women's Refuge? I don't even know if there is a specific charity for that in New Zealand.

It makes sense to talk about a pertinent issue using my work. A lot of what I am exploring is to do with the learning that we do in childhood, from stories and actual experiences. The discovery that there is both good and bad and that we have a choice between them. Everybody, every child, should have the opportunity to do their learning in a safe way, and to make well-informed choices. Having been given that security myself I think it's my responsibility to pass it on, in some way. I'm trying to figure out how.