Bladow!

I am so excited to introduce you to my very first artist and her wonderful work: Mai Britt Dowd. When I started my cybersalon, I thought of all the people I know and what kind of work they could contribute. Mai sat right at the tip of my brain because I’m crazy about her work. In fact, I pestered her into submitting because I thought her sculptures would enrich my blogspot tremendously.

Mai is married to my brother Tom, mother of my fabulous niece (whom I have yet to meet in person) Kaisa and mother-to-be again. She’s one of those young, fashionable mothers that seems not to actually be pregnant when she is. You’d swear she was wearing a baby bump like some superlithe pilates instructor from a television sit-com. No lie, if you’ve lumbered through normal pregnancy like the rest of us, you’d want to slap her.

When preparing myself to look at her work for the first time I had a default plan to patronize her with non-committal niceties if her art just ‘wasn’t my bag, baby’. Then I saw it.

Bladow! I was completely bowled over by her talent. To tell the truth, I’m a little obsessed with her round bellied, thick thighed sculptures, juxtaposed against their perfectly formed fine-boned hands and feet. Sometimes I imagine where I would put one of her pieces in my home, I have it narrowed down to two choices. If I ever put enough extra money aside to be a true patron of the arts, I would like to commission her to make a piece like the one featured above but with four babies clinging to a perfectly dysmorphic mother-creature.

I would like to show you all the angles of this particular beauty in a gallery of sorts. I just am not sure how to do it. If anybody has any blogging sense, please give me your two sense (chuckle) about how I can accomplish showing this artist’s work to it’s fullest potential. Thankx