Post #312597 by Paipo on Wed, Jun 13, 2007 1:52 AM

Got the next one done today - #29 - "Staff God Fragment", made with another piece of basalt collected from the lagoon edge in Rarotonga. This slice was from the outside of the rock and I left the natural weathering on the back and side so it looked like it had been buried or lost in the sea.
This is probably as close to copying artifacts as I'll go with my carving - usually I would modify the design a lot more, but something about the staff god says "don't mess with me". It still looks totally different to the several examples I used for reference. The little supporting figure was especially hard to work out, but next time I plan to do at least 4 of those guys! He reminds me of a transformer or one of those 70s Japanese robots...
This is also possibly my biggest piece so far, at just over 4" long and 1 3/4" wide.