Demon Hand

Hazel King was my art instructor at for several classes at the recreation center in Centennial Park. It's the home of Nashville's Parthenon, one of my favorite places. In one class I made some deformed-looking plaster castings from plastalina and and patinated them to look like bronze. She encouraged me to enter them in the Tennessee Art League annual show. Demon Hand was accepted. She reported the juror's comment back to me: This HAS to be in the show! She continued her work there until the age of 92. I can't imagine how many still think fondly of her.

I cast it in aluminum in 2008 at the Indianapolis Art League foundry class.

Demon Hand, plaster cast in 1980, aluminum cast in 2008.

I still have the plaster cast, but it is cracked. I left the aluminum casting at the Appalachian Center for Craft's, student art grave yard, before I moved to North Carolina. It's probably been melted down into something pretty by now.