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  • 7/6/2025
The all too realistic "home hyaene". This work is do realistic that people were genuinely afraid of it. They thought it must be a real animal, that I mistreated, but this is far from the case. In fact it is foam clay and other structural materials and finally polymer varnish. I've also used mica powder with light sensitive particles to give it a night sheen, which is especially effective at night to give the animal a radiant glow. Anyway it surprised me that I was able to come up with something so realistic over time. The overreaction is also extremely amusing!
Transcript
00:00Here's the inside of the cave dwelling.
00:08Scary, isn't it?
00:11So I'm making the new hyene.
00:15I've got this trademark name, hyene,
00:18because I don't want to claim hyena in case it isn't one.
00:22Oh, it's starting to rain.
00:24I'm making this new one. I'll just be brief.
00:27Yeah, it's coming into shape.
00:31Something weird that happened is I was suddenly deleted from Cora.
00:37It's a funny event because I don't think I was that provocative.
00:45But I think that always my art seemed to be very frightening to some people
00:51because they didn't realize that this is not,
00:56for example, this one here is not an animal.
00:59I mean, not originally an animal.
01:01Originally, this one here, clay.
01:06It's basically that fluffy clay.
01:11Puffy clay, whatever, foam clay.
01:16That's what that one is.
01:18And I think people felt it was distressing to see an animal
01:23that I seemed to have done something to.
01:26So it's quite possible that the realism,
01:29maybe inadvertent realism,
01:31of my sculpture
01:33led to my Cora burning
01:35so nobody can see
01:36something that seems to shock them.
01:40It's really kind of bizarre.
01:43But that's what we've got.
01:47So, yeah, that one,
01:49that's coming into existence.
01:51I'm going to have that
01:52current posture that it's rearing up just a little bit.
01:56That's what I like.
01:57Okay, I'm done.
01:58I'm done.

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