For this one, my idea is to create a movie setting and the theme is about the natural disasters. The crying baby's face emerges from one end of a board, and there will be a little hand stretches out in the middle trying to grab a new shoot, which symbolize the hope, on the other end of the board; the whole surface of the board will be covered with soil, grass and building remains just like the earth surface after an earthquake.
How did I come up with this idea? Different artists have different approaches to their art; I use pictures as inspiration and combine various features on several pictures to make the final design. It is sort of like putting together a jigsaw puzzle; you search for clues in individual pieces and form the whole picture in your head. For Cry, I first thought I was going to take the previous sculpture (a wax crying baby head) on to another level. I went on google and found pictures of crying baby, baby's hands, a new shoot, and earthquake surface. Once I got the pictures, I thought about ways to combine these elements in order to make the scene as dramatic as possible. The advantage of sculpture is that, you materialize a idea into something which can be observed and touched, and maximize its dramatic features in order to give a direct, strong impression. This is the power of image that word can not convey.
The most exciting part of the sculpture is the tortured baby face because this is my first time making face with such strong facial expression using clay. To my surprise, the face was not that hard to make and I felt how the muscle structure moved under the baby's skin once I touched the clay.
This is my third clay head, and I begin to feel a strong connection with this material. The clay becomes part of me as my fingers slide on this cool and smooth object.
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