Don Dougan  sculptor
www.dondougan.com
recent work
FISHIN'  (NOT SO DEEP)
slate, earthenware, stoneware, crab claw, lead, glass, fishhook, sterling silver leaf, wood, paint
14"high x 13¼"x 2¾"

The work is made from the remains of a delicious Dungeness crab caught off the coast of Oregon, some stoneware elements salvaged from lipworks damaged in firing, a piece of earthenware found on an Italian hillside, a fragment of a naturally-cleft piece of black slate, sheet lead leftover from another sculpture project, the marble agitator from a can of spray paint, a taxidermist's glass duck eye, and an old fish hook leafed with silver.

It was done after I was invited to be in an exhibit based on a theme of the sea.
detail (right)
showing naturally cleft and partially sandblasted slate,
stained earthenware,
burnished stoneware,
crab claw, and blue glass marble

detail (above)
showing glass window in the stained earthenware with the sterling silver leafed fishhook visible



detail (right)
showing burnished black stoneware
with glass eye inset