How did you create your sculptures?
I made all three busts at the same time. Using coils of clay, I worked from the bottom up: first the shoulders, then the necks, the heads, and finally the hair. After building each section, I smoothed the coils and added the next section of coils using wet clay. I built the hair and attached it to the heads. I added the facial features last. I fired the sculptures once, glazed them, and then fired them again.
What was most challenging about this process?
Parts of the sculptures kept drying at different rates and cracking. I’d fix a crack on one sculpture only to have a chunk of hair fall off another. It took me more than a year to complete them.
Do you have any advice for aspiring artists like yourself?
Trust the process, believe in yourself, and make work that interests you.