Untitled Woman

Improv. Used two firm slabs cut to a book-matched contour which I then joined using soft slabs to follow the contour. I pushed out the firm slab sides to create a figure expressing a full weight of female bodying, whether older with fibroids or young and pregnant. She is unbound and unworried. Dancing with closed eyes is a way of enjoying and celebrating the body one is. The calm almost smile and her self-enfolding arms express self recognition and acceptance. She embodies a celebration of being that I need as an antidote.
Terracotta and white slip. 11 x 10 x 6.5 inches