Unique, acrylic gouache on resin. 7 x 12 x 5 inches.
Some background on how I created the Cuffed series. I modeled a small hand in clay inspired by the hands in Parmigianino’s 1530 painting, Madonna of the Rose. After making a mold of the refined plaster version, I cast the hand numerous times in wax and modeled various wax “cuffs” onto the hands, and then they were cast in bronze. I also cast hands in resin and modeled different “cuffs” onto them using cast resin forms and Apoxie clay. Then I painted them with either oil paint or acrylic gouache (after a trillion hours of sanding and filing). The hand remains the same in this series, a stand-in for the self. The “cuffs” change as the hands gesture releasing or receiving.
The painted resin hands are in this shop, as well as a small bronze hand sculpture. The rest of the bronze hand sculptures may be seen on my website.
Shown on this page is my cut-out from a photocopy of the Parmigianino painting, which I placed in a mossy crevice to create Touch. Another example inspired by the same painting: Lap.
