Nubian Queen

Picture this piece inverted, you may see how this form existed in another life. It once hung off a corbel http://architecture.about.com over a victorian house door. This newel was partially covered with layers of thick white paint when I found it in the trash outside a home in Marblehead. The paint was cracked and chipped adding to the potential that I saw. It was the area of what is now her dress combined with her overall proportions that most inspired the transformation. 

Included in the work is paint, beads, feather down and stamped foil and metallic fiber.