The Caged Hawk

The bust itself isn't my proudest work, but all assembled, I rather like how it looks. Fun to put all of the pieces together, and it's been a while since I made anything with one of those removeable masks.

The base sculpture is made purely out of earthenware, and the mask and drone are made mostly out of epoxy putty, with incidentals like wire, bamboo, and metal beads. Painted with acrylics.

Had to include a reference to her two pups in there somewhere, of course. Strung pearls felt appropriate.

Here's full post about the mask itself. And here she is without it:

This one was a good challenge. I wasn't sure about my job with the face at first when I sculpted it, but I got to like it more when doing the painting. Looks better this way. Helps that the all-white eyes stand out so much. (That's what we call good design right there.)

I probably would have done a full upper-body sculpt of this one if I'd had the time, down to the waist, maybe. I did this one sometime in March, though, I think, so my life was mostly School at that point. Ah well; this is good too.

crafters often refer to this collection as a "stash" or a "hoard."

it's normal to have, but sometimes comes with a certain awkwardness.

the problem is that it takes a very long time to make things from textiles - and it is extremely quick, fun and easy to get more materials.

Presents, impulse purchases, leftovers from other projects, things you bought FULLY intending to make something that you changed your mind about...

Another problem is that you genuinely DO have a plan for the materials! your intentions and desires are THERE!

and admitting that it isn't going to happen - or that your mind has changed, or you're no longer able to do them - can be really painful!

it's incredibly hard to say: "we are not the people who can do these things. we are not the people who WILL do these things."

but sometimes you need to.

it's a natural part of life. it might feel painful to let go of things that you really want to use, but won't. But clearing them out - and the attached guilt and shame - will make room for a lot more things in your life. Room for things you'll use. Room for the projects you'll do.

Room and space - not for hanging on to the shades of the ambitions and intentions and people you aren't - not being held for lives you don't have - but room and space for who you are today, and who you'll be tomorrow, and for the things you'll do.

Room and space to grow.

You have an ex assassin, a (overly curious) doctor and a warrior/executioner in the same room, what do you think will happen?

Ever have your bestie read you like a freaking book??

I mean, I get why it’s not as popular here on Tumblr dot com, given it’s kinda a jock/military adjacent thing, but like. Our ability to just. Pick up a small, firm object, judge its internal inertia and mass by holding it for a bit, and then flinging it with the kind of accuracy and speed Humans are capable of is.

Like there’s another post about how Humans in an alien zoo would probably be breaking out constantly, since we consider escape rooms to be a fun courtship ritual, but

Is Archeops gping to land on her arm like a hawk? If so, how heavy is it. Can't be too-

Yeah, I mean it's clearly not random, especially since there are a few places where there's a recognizable date and time format.

But with it only using 7 different letters it'd probably be difficult or impossible to decode.

She noted that IDDXL is the same length as MARCH or APRIL. There were two other things that showed up in the month slot for dates, CIDIX and IMXMMM, the former also being 5 letters and the latter being 6, which would just line up with AUGUST. We both noticed that if the former 5-letter month is MARCH and the latter is APRIL, that would make I=A and D=P line up, with I=A also tracking for AUGUST. I also noticed that IMXMMM=AUGUST make S, T, and U all being M groups up rather neatly alphabetically, so I decided to note these assumptions down as:

This... lines up rather nicely. It also makes DC and IC (not pictured) showing up after times line up to PM and AM. I take it to its natural conclusion:

This leaves the last 5 letters of the alphabet as a bit of a mystery, but... as I'm looking at the screenshot up above again now... [MVIDIX] MVIDIX DMVDI looks like [SEARCH] SEARCH QUERY [MCLCCIC XCDMM MIDV] even looks like [UNKNOWN INPUT TAPE] So I'm thinking VWXYZ is all I as some sort of default. So starting to decode the rest of the screenshot...

JUMP TO MAIN CONTENT JUMP TO ? [HOME]RAFFLE{?} [PLACES] * FORUMS * WIKI [SEARCH] SEARCH QUERY[UNKNOWN INPUT TAPE] * LOG IN * SIGN UP * SUBMISSIONS * COMMENTS * FEATURED O FEATURED O ALL *

This is... a webpage? Why? What? How? How did someone seemingly accidentally copy/paste a whole webpage, convert all the text to a Roman numeral-based code, and then send it to a plane ID blog? I suppose the latter can be explained if they meant to just copy an image with a plane in it but... the code conversion. How. At this point I'm not putting a ton of effort into every word of the last block of text, but skipping to what I can get...