This blog is dedicated to a series of extremely abstract images derived solely from this very silly Snoopy sculpt, shot in natural light. Like Snoopy, most of the work that I've done though out the entirety of my career has been and, is shamelessly commercial, a lot of cartoony sort of stuff but, that is not to say compromised sort of stuff. It has long been my belief and or, feeling that a shape is a shape, regardless of what part it may play in the whole or, for that matter, what the whole may in fact be. From Bernini to the Burger King, from Naguchi to the Power Puff Girls, a shape has it's needs and properties, it's surfaces and volumes, it's transitions and relationships, either it is well handled and developed or it isn't. I take great pride in how I handle my shapes. To paraphrase Michelangelo: Shapes are the lantern by which all images are possible. ( The actual quote is : "Sculpture is the lantern by which painting is made possible". It was Mike's retort to Lenny's assertion that sculpting was more or less dirty, noisy, monkey work.)