Round Robin Challenge: Mailboxes
The challenge this week is “Mailboxes”.
Waiting For The Mail, a sculpture by Lowell Davis. He is most famous for his detailed porcelain sculptures of domesticated farm animals and says:
I think the animals were the magic of my work. I have a dog that paid for this entire farm. Just an old dog that I bought for a dollar at a pound. She had mange and blisters all over. They were going to destroy her that afternoon. I said, “I’ll take that one.” She went to all my shows with me. I used her in four figurines and eleven plates. The very first figurine I did was the dog sitting by the mailbox. It was an instant hit. She made me tons of money. I still give her a little credit for paying for the farm. In fact, that’s why I put a paw print on my work.
I have quite a few of his sculptures, used to collect them in my 20s 
Posted in Uncategorized | 8 Comments
May 30th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
Oh I like that. The quote adds a very special touch.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
What a cool photo. I wouldn’t have thought of a miniature.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
Hi Janet
That sculpture is adoreable. What a cute way to do the challenge!
-Carly
May 30th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
That’s a cute sculpture. Thanks for the story from the artist too. Great little mailbox
May 30th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I love success stories like his! What a neat figurine, too. Nice job!
May 30th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
I like that figurine – good shapes and colors, and very well photographed. And how wonderful that the artist and the dog benefited so much from meeting each other!
May 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
How cute is that!!
Thanks for stopping by mine
June 7th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Anything with animals I love. I like your pics that you post. Very nice.
Thank you for stopping by my blog.