Another entry in my ongoing 'Faces of Lontra' series. This one was a lot of fun, in that I got to integrate welded metal, Raku-fired clay, and found components.
The piece is a riff off the fact that some in the Catholic Church reputedly used to consider otters to be fish (and thus a valid target for holy day dining). Here's a quote from a old book called 'The Otter's Story, Jacob’s Story'.
Falstaff, when he says an otter is neither fish nor flesh, was evidently puzzled; but so were not the monks of Dijon, who ruled that whatever he is besides, he is certainly a fish, and so roasted him in their old Carthusian Convent kitchen, in full faith that they were going to have fish for dinner...
This guy is draped in a clerical stole, and carrying a faux wafer of the host on his tongue.
The piece is a riff off the fact that some in the Catholic Church reputedly used to consider otters to be fish (and thus a valid target for holy day dining). Here's a quote from a old book called 'The Otter's Story, Jacob’s Story'.
Falstaff, when he says an otter is neither fish nor flesh, was evidently puzzled; but so were not the monks of Dijon, who ruled that whatever he is besides, he is certainly a fish, and so roasted him in their old Carthusian Convent kitchen, in full faith that they were going to have fish for dinner...
This guy is draped in a clerical stole, and carrying a faux wafer of the host on his tongue.
