A Phergle is born!

 Ideas can be made, hunted down like fugitives, or sometimes they jump up and down screaming,

                                                                  “Do me!”

I have a painting I’ve been working on for more than a decade. It will never be finished because I add to it whenever I feel the urge. It hangs in my bedroom, and one morning, still gummy with sleep, an image leapt out at me. So I started doodling.

I find doodling a great way of developing a piece. It’s quick, and requires no commitment to any one concept. The pin board in my studio is covered with tiny drawings on scraps of paper, and sometimes I recycle abandoned ideas as my mood changes. In this case the final sculpture looks nothing like this original scribble.

The sculpture itself also undergoes changes as I work,

which is why they take so damn long to make.

I took this picturewhen I thought I was finished,

but before I could declare it so,

the piece went through a variety of “looks”.

First it was white, then coloured in like a cartoon figure,

then it was dropped and the face smashed off,

then it went white again, and finally,

it ended up as it is shown below.

I’m very happy with it. I called it Dick E. Bird.,

but if someone has a better suggestion …

Dick E. Bird
mixed mediums
32 cm high

Available for purchase