Segmentation
I enjoy the ambiguity of the segments and joints of these figures. Are they skeletal, with the joints naturally being meetings of bone?
Or do they have partial exoskeletons, like crustaceans and insects?
However one might read them, the joints lend a plausible basis for movement on land, with a liberal dose of artistic license in their placement.
Each piece has between twelve and twenty-five actual wood joints. Some joints get smoothed over, so are ultimately unseen. Some get carved into joints that show. And some apparent joints are simply carved in a spot that calls for one.
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Locating where the segments begin and end is done along with situating the tendrils, tusks and thorns, as they work in tandem in creating a sort of aesthetic punctuation along the figure’s bony form.
There’s an interplay between the segmented parts and those left with a continuous fluidity akin to an octopus’s arms, as if the core of the figure has a more earthy basis, with the extremities open to an amorphous blending with other realms.