I would often make small oven bake clay figurines reminscent of little animal idols or other creature icons so I used my favorite, the fox priest, as the subject of my experiment with two part silicone molds. The piece itself was a means to explore rendering different fundamental construction materials and how they persist not only in finish, but in the texture of the cast material itself. For example, the rusted steel was actually cast with wax then painted over for the rough pock-marked texture. The limestone was cast in pigmented plaster, with the degraded variant removed early to allow it crumble and be manually eroded. The rest were small batch concrete with the faded marble effect being made by dusting the mold walls with pigment before pouring.

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The piece itself was inspired by having recently finished reading A Canticle for Leibowitz, a soft sci-fi span of three vignettes at furthering points in humanities post nuclear future telling a heartwrenching story of  cultural inheritance and what will be left behind for our descendants to believe in. This theme of persisting and inevitable faith is what I see in the reverance for the natural world, my piece suggesting that through the rise and fall of civilization, we will always have wondrous mythology for the beauty of nature.