Did I ever post the finished Lascaux (& etc) horses here?!
This first batch of them will be available in my next shop update, but there are more getting bisque-fired tomorrow that should be going into the shop in mid-April alongside a couple more cave painting mugs :)
No idea why these prehistoric handprints in the caves make me feel Things but they do, whenever I see them. I even remember watching Brother Bear as a kid and being hypnotized by the imagery, lol. Painted river pebbles, will make two macrame pendants with rough stone beads with them
i wish i could talk to the artists of cave paintings. do you know! do you know that your art lasted thousands of years! do you know that it's still beautiful! do you know that you've left us a view of creatures and cultures that have been gone since before our history starts! do you know how many people look at what you've made and think, "this is what it is to be human"! do you know i'm still in awe of your skill and elegance and stylization even now in a world that would probably be unrecognizable to you! aaaaa
Ummmm sooooo I did some Lascaux-inspired mugs and I love them...........maybe TOO much? Even just in bisque-fired unfinished form?!!?!?? The possibility that one of these will live with me forever? Is HIGH?
There are three of them* & every single one is my precious perfect bébé!!!?!?!
(I had the good fortune of visiting Lascaux & seeing the beautiful interpretative recreation of the cave paintings when I was 10 and YES they have stuck with me and also YES I did, not long after that, also read Clan Of the Cave Bear at an Impressionable Age!!!!)