The Diving Girl

Technical notes
The base, made of semi-refractory clay, has a grid of clay inside it that is necessary to keep the jet of glue that I injected inside it with a special gun stable and contained. The glue inside the base once it has dried holds the steel rod firmly in place.
Inside the girl's belly is a clay tube into which the steel rod is inserted after injecting glue.
Obviously, this assembly process has to be done at two different times.

The sculpture is hollow and modelled by hand. The face is as small as a hazelnut and modelled by hand.

The girl's skin is left in natural clay, while the coloured parts have been decorated with ceramic glazes.

The base is made of semi-refractory clay while the girl is modelled in normal pinkish clay. Both parts are decorated with polished and glazed ceramic glazes.
Length 26cm, Height 27cm, Width 17cm