| I was approached in early December by a patron who wondered if I could carve a Madonna and Child for a creche. I had made her children some small animals for a nativity some years before, and I said sure. She thought it might be interesting if the Virgin was in the pose of the Pieta, a sort of foreshadowing, and that felt enticing. I rummaged the wood collection, and found a piece of honey locust with a rind of bright white sapwood. Just the thing for an illumined infant, I thought. I set about revealing the figures, and this is what happened. A medieval Madonna, or is it the Crone and the Homunculus? The patron was shocked, and rightly so, I suppose. So much for my ability to do commission carvings. A strong piece, even so. |
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