This piece is another Glade S. Davis collaboration. The stone was found to have natural forms that resembled a Dragons head. We did as little carving as we could to extract the natural form and release the Dragon. We then carved the horns from fossilized mastodon ivory. Working at that scale with the ivory was tricky, but we got it and we think it turned out amazingly well. What I love about the materials in the piece is that between the stone and the fossil ivory, it's truly ancient material. We are just pushing them together to tell the story of a Dragon that lost a battle and was beheaded.

I learned with this sculpture that sometimes it's about what you don't do that makes something turn out really well.
This piece is held in a private collection and is not for sale.

The beginning

This shows how I found the original stone. As you can see, it's truly already the beheaded dragon. It just needs some dust removed and it's horns put back on.

How it begins.

We get the stone wet and begin pushing the tools at it. We learn how hard the material is and how we will work it.