Female Torso: Progress Report

oh man, she's beautiful. Classic, everlasting beauty!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

On 09 Aug 2004 15:14:44 GMT, ospam (LC aka Fiddy)
wrote:

oh BROTHER. File that nonesense in the "matters not to me" file in your lil
ole head!!! Goofballs!

*chuckle* There was a time, not so long ago, when receiving those
kinds of communications would have sent me into a downward spiral of
depression and despair.

I am SO over that. LOL! I figure folks like that just have WAY too
much time on their hand, or they have issues that need addressing. And
seeing as how I left the counseling field a couple of years ago, I can
be of no help to them whatsoever :-)

Mary, she is 2.25" or about 57mm. I really like her, and wish you
could all see her in person. SO much better than the photo...

Tink

"Tinkster" wrote in message
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My new one is up if you'd like to take a look...

http://snipurl.com/8bjd

Tink


Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.

I love it.


Michele

On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 10:20:44 +1200, Marisa Cappetta
wrote:

I'd suggest that if proportions worry you, take some life drawing classes,
or draw a self portrait using a mirror. You'd be surprised at how it will
help in 3D work.

As an artwork the same questions come to my mind as with most Goddes beads;
should we only focus is on the reproductive side of womanhood? One of the
reasons I liked your female form bestriding the globe is that it depicted a
powerful female. One who is taking charge, not passively waiting to perform
her biological function.

I read the treatise that recently came out of the vatican on the role of
woman with it's notion of waiting as being an admirable female
characteristic. Does the Goddess bead/form perpetuate this notion? And is it
a negative notion as the feminists might have it?

These are only questions, not convictions and ones that have been on my mind
of late.

Thanks for bringing this up. 'The reproductive side of womanhood' has
absolutley nothing to do with my life. Breed for the church, breed
for the goddess, in the end you're still knocked up. While I find
some goddess beads interesting from an artistic standpoint (How on
earth do they get those blobs of glass to do that?), I enjoy seeing
images of the female form that don't incorporate that element much
more.

And oh! The fuss that has ensued! I've been called an anti-feminist
and all sorts of things (privately, of course) because my female torso
has no head, arms or legs. Um... That's why I called it a torso.

http://snipurl.com/8bgj

For pity sake. Where do these people come from?! I swear that's why I
hardly post over there any longer.

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:10:55 -0500, "starlia"
wrote:

And oh! The fuss that has ensued! I've been called an anti-feminist
and all sorts of things (privately, of course) because my female torso
has no head, arms or legs. Um... That's why I called it a torso.

http://snipurl.com/8bgj

For pity sake. Where do these people come from?! I swear that's why I
hardly post over there any longer.


Ahhh.... But not all of those folks were from WC. There were a few
from here. Lurkers, I think, as the names weren't familiar to me.
Everyone is entitle to an opinion, of course, but coming after me like
villagers with torches and pitchforks was not.

It's just another case of bad manners, IMO. Time to get out the "Don't
Poke Tink With a Stick" magnetic sign again. LOL! Oh, how I LOVE that
thing!

I have to admit though... Since being "Shanerated" at Penland, not
much bothers me these days. It's awesome :-)

Tink, The Invincible (and nearly Un-Annoyable)

I think it's great that it's not getting you down. I think I am still
venerable enough it would really hurt my feelings.

BTW - I love the second torso. She rocks!

--
Starlia Klopman
www.klopmanstudios.com


"Tinkster" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 13:10:55 -0500, "starlia"
wrote:

And oh! The fuss that has ensued! I've been called an anti-feminist
and all sorts of things (privately, of course) because my female torso
has no head, arms or legs. Um... That's why I called it a torso.

http://snipurl.com/8bgj

For pity sake. Where do these people come from?! I swear that's why I
hardly post over there any longer.


Ahhh.... But not all of those folks were from WC. There were a few
from here. Lurkers, I think, as the names weren't familiar to me.
Everyone is entitle to an opinion, of course, but coming after me like
villagers with torches and pitchforks was not.

It's just another case of bad manners, IMO. Time to get out the "Don't
Poke Tink With a Stick" magnetic sign again. LOL! Oh, how I LOVE that
thing!

I have to admit though... Since being "Shanerated" at Penland, not
much bothers me these days. It's awesome :-)

Tink, The Invincible (and nearly Un-Annoyable)

Tinkster wrote in message . ..

And oh! The fuss that has ensued! I've been called an anti-feminist
and all sorts of things (privately, of course) because my female torso
has no head, arms or legs. Um... That's why I called it a torso.

http://snipurl.com/8bgj

Anyway, last night's effort is out of the kiln and ready for
sandblasting. It's so hard to tell what clear stuff really looks like
until you blast or etch it. Fingers crossed...

Tink

*blinks* eh? anti-feminist because you made a torso? I'm amazed they
didn't also jump on you because you made it out of glass that's
clear/frosted looking. because y'know, that implies that women are
fragile, cold, and transparent!

I wonder if these same people burn those "learn to draw the human
form" art books and boycott museums because of all the drawings and
sculptures of the female body that are nothing but torsos, or busts
with heads but no arms, waists, or legs.

-amber.

Ahhh.... But not all of those folks were from WC. There were a few
from here. Lurkers, I think, as the names weren't familiar to me.
Everyone is entitle to an opinion, of course, but coming after me like
villagers with torches and pitchforks was not.

Amazing, the big brass ones hanging off lurkers, isn't it? LOL

As I said, re the feminist thing, on WC....oh good grief! Talk about reading
too much into too little. I wonder if they'd fuss as much if it was a nicely
endowed male torso?

Someone in my Bill Rasmussen class asked why he made so many more female
figures than male ones. He told us that female curves were more interesting
to create, and that getting "tallywhackers" to look right (his word, I love
it!) was just a PITA.

KarenK

Bring her (them) to AGI. I wanna see.

Kathy K
"Tinkster" wrote in message
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On 09 Aug 2004 15:14:44 GMT, ospam (LC aka Fiddy)
wrote:

oh BROTHER. File that nonesense in the "matters not to me" file in your
lil
ole head!!! Goofballs!

*chuckle* There was a time, not so long ago, when receiving those
kinds of communications would have sent me into a downward spiral of
depression and despair.

I am SO over that. LOL! I figure folks like that just have WAY too
much time on their hand, or they have issues that need addressing. And
seeing as how I left the counseling field a couple of years ago, I can
be of no help to them whatsoever :-)

Mary, she is 2.25" or about 57mm. I really like her, and wish you
could all see her in person. SO much better than the photo...

Tink