Topic: Glass kitty...

[flying free]

Anita it does look good on there and I like the extra and informative precis about it.
I would be interested to see how it looks, compared to the piece next to it, if it were placed at a proportionate size on the page....it's 4 times longer than the coati!
An amazing beast - I think it's beautiful.
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[Carolyn Preston]

It's a human animal. Well, without any arms. Or a head.

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/3b-86.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/1b-113.jpg

A full two-foot tall and a whopping +20kg in weight.

Are we sure that's a human?   

Carolyn

[TxSilver]

I am having a hard time figuring the sculpture out. It looks like someone was flying along the ground at high speeds and splatted into a tree.

[rosieposie]

Well Nic,  thank you for showing it to us...I can't say I have worked out exactly what it is,  but I would give it house room if only for the chance to ponder what it represents. 
At the moment, I am going with Anita,  but maybe an aerial view could be enlightening?

[Pinkspoons]

I don't have an aerial view (I'd need a stepladder to take the shot on my photo table), but these should show more:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/6b-3.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/5b-13.jpg
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/7b-1.jpg

As far as I've figured is that it's a Hamadryad, a tree-spirit-creature thingummy from Greek mythology. When the tree died, so did the spirit - presumably why the tree and the torso are both a bit chopped up.

[Pinkspoons]

I would be interested to see how it looks, compared to the piece next to it, if it were placed at a proportionate size on the page....it's 4 times longer than the coati!

That's the eternal problem of photographing objects that are either very long or very tall - you have to pull the camera back to fit it all in, and it ends up looking very tiny - and the opposite is, of course, true for photos of items that are very small and that require close-ups to see any real detail. They end up looking massive!

[flying free]

maybe best then to photograph those items with a known object (a classy one of course    ) next to it to better demonstrate the size.
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[Pinkspoons]

I do have a corner in my studio/study/workshop for photographing objects in-situ with props, but it's currently buried in clutter. Oops!

[chopin-liszt]

I'm wondering if there might be a naiad (the water spirit) to go with your dryad - they would make a wonderful pair!

[Pinkspoons]

I've only ever seen this model, unfortunately. And, as far as I know, there are only three of these in existence.

Glass and water spirits sound like an amazing and apt combination, though!

But I'd pity any table or shelf they sat on as a pair.