a personal piece i started sculpting the morning before returning home from a visit to my girlfriend. this one has a lot of emotional significance to me, and i'm really happy with how the overall form looks. i don't often do sculpts. maybe i should do more...

the color is meant to inspire the feeling of an unfinished - or rather, unbaked - clay statue. because i am also a work in progress! i tried to work with a lot of volume and weight here, especially with the underside of the upper arms - the 'wings', i guess? - and focused specifically on trying to 'grasp' at myself, to feel some amount of ownership of my shell.