Mar 25
In late 2009, I had been looking for a light green stone that would polish up to have a look like jade when it was done, and found this fabulous soapstone from Montana. I was able to get two small blocks of it, both 12″ x 12″ x 5″.
These were the first pieces to get finished since I quit carving in 2002 before I returned to Hawaii from New Zealand.
I did a smaller horse, but got stuck when I couldn’t get in under the neck to shape it right. It’s still sitting in my studio waiting to get done. I’ll probably have to make some new odd-shaped chisel to do it.
These two sat completed on my table for a long time before I took them down to the gallery – I had to feast on them with my eyes before I could let them go. I love how the light makes the stone look semi-transparent.
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Images: Top: Curly: Montana Soapstone 12h x 12w x 5d; Bottom: Due Soon 12h x 12w x 5d © Angela Treat Lyon 2009
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Mar 25
I’m a closet comic book fan.
I used to sit with my kids for hours reading Superman, the Green Lantern, Dr. Strange, and Spiderman…and I keep wondering why there isn’t a FunMan. (Or Woman.)
Someone who will jet down out of the blue and relieve situations that have become saturated with way too much Seriosity.
So here she is – SU-per Horse, landing and making ripples in the world (can you see them around her feet? Click on the image to make it bigger.) with her vibrancy and ready to chase any sadness, gloom or doom away.
She landed so fast her cape is still up around her ears, but that’s OK – when you least expect it, it’ll flow out behind her and she’ll be flying off, and Happiness and Everything is OKness will have suddenly descended upon the World….
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Images: SU-per Horse 12h x 6w x 6d © Angela Treat Lyon 2010
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Mar 25
After I did Rock Slide, I pulled out another one of the 12 x 6 x 6 stones from the pile and was going to do a happy gal kicking her legs up in the air.
But there were these round marks on the side of the stone from the circular saw that the quarry folks left when they cut the stone, and they made me think of water and waves….
The circular saw marks made it seem as if I was seeing a cutaway of a wave from the side. I liked that, so I took the time to sit and contemplate what that would mean to the design of the piece, or even the posture of it.
I suddenly ’saw’ a horse body surfing through the wave…and…well, that’s just what happens – plans just fly out the window when there’s more fun to be had.
You may have a bit of a hard time discerning where the horse is and what’s going on, but if you look closely you’ll see.
It was a particularly difficult piece to get a good shot of because the light just wouldn’t cooperate. So I’m giving you both the side views so you can see better.
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Images: Body Surf 12h x 6w x 6d © Angela Treat Lyon 2010
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Mar 25
In ancient Hawaii, it was a popular sport among the young and strong to create sleds out of sticks and vines and slide down lava fields on them.
When I was carving this piece, at first I had thought to have it against a backdrop of a full moon. But it just looked too weird, so I took the moon out. By the time I removed the moon, all that was left as an underpinning was a boogey-board-looking shape.
I had thought I’d call it Boogey Board, but it doesn’t look like he is sliding through water. So instead, I named it Rock Slide, because it looks like he’s just having a ball sliding down the lava.
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Images: Rock Slide 6h x 12w x 6d © Angela Treat Lyon 2010
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Mar 25
Late in 2009, I decided that, since it had been such a hard year for me, I was going to Say a new world into existance for myself.
I had had a bunch of new 12″ x 6″ x 6″ blocks of stone shipped to me from Stone Sculptors Supplies in California, so I decided to use them for this new series. Here’s the first piece of the Horse Series: Celebrate!
Because: I’m celebrating a new world! One of more art, more carving, more stone, more friends and more money from sales so I can keep carving and adding more delightful, whimsical, fun sculpture to the world.
I think we think too much. We think there is something wrong with us so we only see what’s wrong and pass right by the Beauty, the funny-bones and the Mystery. Always searching for the fix, we never see that we exist in perfect imperfection.
So here’s my antidote to Seriosity: Lyon Whimsicality.
I SAY, and I Say it into BEing: Life is Fun!
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Images: Celebrate 12h x 6w x 6d © Angela Treat Lyon 2010
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In late 2009, I had been looking for a light green stone that would polish up to have a look like jade when it was done, and found this fabulous soapstone from Montana. I was able to get two small blocks of it, both 12″ x 12″ x 5″.
