This new sculpture, shown in progress in late 2023, reflects the artist’s determination to try to remain hopeful even in quite challenging times. The work is being completed in peyote-stitched glass beads over a mid twentieth-century manikin head. On the sculpture, the “water” level rises to the base of the figure’s nose; that smooth pool reflecting the moon, clouds, and darkening sky, above. At the base of the neck the water will flow from behind and spread forward, becoming more turbulent and spilling over the edge of a plinth or shelf. Intended to be viewed in the round close to eye level, the reverse of the head displays distant mountains reflected in the water.
Head in the Clouds
Glass seed beads and thread, worked in peyote stitch over mid 20th-century manikin head
H.: 9 1/2″; current L. (back of head to nose): 8 1/2″
Leslie B. Grigsby Beadwork 