These sculptures take the Eastern found object art form of viewing stones as a jumping off point. Called suiseki in Japan and gongshi in China, these rocks evoke real or imaginary landscape features with
"...surfaces that suggest great age, forceful profiles that evoke the grandeur of nature, overlapping layers or planes that impart depth, and hollows or perforations that create rhythmic, harmonious patterns.” *
Most of the larger sculptures use EPS foam as a base. I build a shell of Sculptamold and fillers over the foam before painting.