Julio the Wrestler, from "Sculpted Portraits" series

Photograph taken with Nikon D80 Digital SLR
July 2007
From "Sculpted Portraits" series

I've been making very small sculptures of faces out of air-dry clay and then photographing them against various backgrounds, and experimenting with various types of lighting. This image was created by covering my air-dry clay guy with glitter and gold leaf, giving him features found in trashy magazines or old art catalogs, and then photographing him on the table in my living room. I believe I used the built-in flash on my camera for this one.