Pepper Tarbottom the Podnogin3

This one of two pieces that will be in the C2 gallery [link] as a sort of guest appearance on my own humble part in the lovely 's gallery show which is this August 12, 2006 in Charlevoix, MI- GO SEE IT!!!!!!!


This piece really typifies the many things that I regularly use in my work: natural and synthetic, hard scult and soft scuplt, even two different techniques: clay modeling and felting. Those are real roots coming out of his "noggin" and his fingers. And that is- I believe and forgive me for not be certain right now- a hickory nut as the core of his head. His body "costume" is all felting, and is meant to mimmic tiny roots and vines and mossy and leafy greenery. The shoes were made from synthetic leaves...yes I know you can tell that they synthetic...I don't care.

"Podnoggins seem to be the front line in the Green world’s battle to return the earth to itself- to break the world of metal and stone and turn it into rust and dust. It is they that cause the weeds to grow thick and nettle-angry in ditches and abandoned lots- hence they often associate with denizens of the Hedge. It is a sure sign of their presence when one sees green shoots sprouting up through concrete and stone or aerial meadows flourishing in high storm gutters on the sides of buildings and houses. Podnoggins send their vines up and over metal and glass structures, and if left unimpeded, the Podnoggins will and have brought all such human structures down and back into the earth, obscuring all traces of these edifices in their lush green embrace. Among their favorite of man’s constructs to bring to ruin are the wide variety of abandoned war machines found throughout the world: old derelict armored tanks, downed fighter planes, strange monstrous vehicles. The harder that human kind fights them with poisons and pruning, mulching and mowing- the harder the Podnoggin fights back. They are the tree that finds purchase in the side walk and brings ruin to the paved lot and causes the most well built of stone walls to crumble. They split roads and raise sidewalks with roots and grass. They have brought low all of the greatest of ancient castles and forts, and they will claim all the new ones as well one day…"



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