Creating a monster

Ive been doing the summer holiday sight seeing thing over the past few weeks.  Picking out shapes and forms here and there.  It comes fairly naturally now and before I know it I am pulling the threads for a new theme together.  Ive been to the seaside and visited a few museums and been to an original steam powered funfair in Weston-supermare which all trickles down to inform the next piece.

At the moment Im looking at Victorian keepsakes and souvenirs such as glass shell specimen domes and Staffordshire Flat backs.  The Victorians did sentimentality so very well.

Summer gives me time to make bigger, slightly more experimental pieces.  Ive just emerged from the shed having created a monster.  This piece could be a hideous monstrosity or a triumph.  Not sure which yet.  Its based on the glass domed specimens and is a messy mound of symbols and shapes I use.  As I type the county has started to riot and this piece reflects the chaos all around us.  I plan to include satelites and enclose the whole with a glass dome.