This week marked a significant milestone, as I had the joy of creating the very first conceptual sculpted feature for the Kinetic Becoming project! After weeks of sketching and preparing everything, I finally got to touch the clay and start shaping an eye, and it felt like a truly wonderful achievement.
This initial try might seem a bit rough and unpolished, but that’s perfectly okay because it’s all part of the learning process. It’s more about exploring how the clay reacts, understanding how much pressure is needed to shape it, and discovering how to bring out the gentle planes and curves that make an eye feel truly alive. Embrace this journey, every step brings you closer to mastery!
Working in three dimensions offers a very different experience from sketching on paper. Every angle is important. Light interacts with the form differently based on the depth of a lid or the slope of a brow. This eye is the first of many studies to come, and each one will bring me closer to understanding the anatomy, emotion, and presence of a face in clay.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll sculpt one feature at a time: nose, mouth, ears, profile, and finally, a conceptual full head that becomes the centerpiece of Kinetic Becoming. Each piece is a building block, a step toward the larger vision of a self-portrait that explores transformation in motion.
This eye may just be clay on a board right now, but it represents a threshold crossed, the beginning of turning sketches into tangible, kinetic form.
Hands to clay, eyes to the future.
