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Unfired Stoneware
25″x16″x16″
2012

One day I observed this little boy crying profusely and without ambition. The parents had one idea how to quiet the noise that everyone was looking at. They kneeled down to get on his level to plead with the boy to stop. Nothing was working. I use that base setting and developed it into the boy you see here. I wanted his attributes to cater to his spoiled, selfish attitude. I increased his obesity, gave him a stuffed animal, ice cream, clothes, which places him in Disney World, and left his shoe untied. All these things develop how the boy’s parents spoil him and shows a failure of parenting style. To induce the crying, I wanted to show how short the boy’s fuse was to react in this way. So I simply made his ice cream fall down.