Here is a sculpture I did as part of the design for the cover of a book about writing and revision, aptly named, BRINGING THE DEVIL TO HIS KNEES. The publisher ultimately went with someone else. Likely I was being a little too literal. I made the sculpture as a armature on which to place a piece of writing showing evidence of the struggle of revision. I never got it quite as I saw it in my head, but here’s one of my attempts:
November 29, 2010