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Hildreth B. Potts
Sculptor
Paper Maché
















Metal Work








































We think we manipulate materials, but every time we touch a substance it comes into our hands, our memories and our thoughts. We are influenced and guided by what we last touched. It is always a conversation, never a monologue.
My focus has often been on the transformation of scrap material into poetic images. At one time, I worked with found bits of industrial mild steel which I welded together and carved back with an oxyacetylene torch. Now I am using a special extremely durable paper maché made of recycled egg boxes and other discarded materials, such as hospital gowns and lint.
Bits and pieces, the soft underbelly, playing around
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