This is one of the biggest works in clay to emerge from our Clay Media Program. I caught student Tara in the process of modeling the eyes on her gigantic face and asked her if she had ever heard of Jun Kaneko. “Who?”, she said. We discussed how Kaneko makes the largest scale ceramic heads and in the world and that his studio is practically right down the street (pretty amazing little gem here in Omaha). A few days later, I started having second thoughts about my discussion with Tara. What if she wants to make even larger heads? Actually, that would be quite awesome and judging from the look on her face, quite possible.
-W