Post #324508 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Aug 9, 2007 2:47 PM

Yeah, I wish Bill would have experimented more with that mixed sculpture/painting concept in his Tiki pieces, I like it very much. But I guess the temptation to fully sculpt Tikis was to great, and he also might have been concerned about lack of a native tradition in that. It really worked well in his modernist wall hangings, like in the famous Witco World.

But most of the time the painting part became the background to the sculpted art, not quite as integral as exemplified in this Tiki piece.