Whale: Gray/Dreaming

Some mythologies say the whale is the world; in this whimsical sculpture a figure travels in a boat atop a migrating gray whale, imagining what’s ahead. The cedar whale is cut and shaped on a band saw and sander, and the poplar figure is carved using a rotary tool. Colorful layers of latex and enamel paints bring the piece to life and reflect the artist’s love of animals and toys.

Words from a poem by Denise Leveratov are painted on the bottom:
"I must brim my own banks, persist, vanish at last in greater flood, yet still within it follow my own task, dreaming towards the calling sea."

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