Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot

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All Ideas start with a story. Here is the story behind the Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot.

Several years ago, I realized when the smoke started coming into my living room as I lit a fire, that something was wrong with the chimney. I took a visit to the roof and discovered that one of the large chunks of brick from a top corner of the chimney had been blown into the chimney. Now, this is never a good thing, and it implied that the chimney needed what they call a "roof up rebuild". Thats where you take the chimney down to the roof line, clean all the bricks, and put it back together again. So, I dutifully took the chimney top apart, and started to look for someone to put it back together again. Now, in the process if interviewing people, I asked one of them if he could get a decorative cap to put on the top, and he told me that the local suppliers never had any in despite requests and that I ought to look online. (shame on Mutual Materials)

So, This is the initial chimney pot I went off to look for:

My Initial desire for a Chimney Pot.

So, I started looking for "Chimney Pot" online, and found only one real maker of them in the US, and then I came across this stunning site in England. www.no9uk.com, and he not only made decorative chimney pots, but he had dragons landing on them. Now, I like the idea of making art that goes with a house. So I spent some time thinking about what kind of creature I'd want to have landing on my chimney, and it occurred to me that a fairy would be optimum. And, now, the way I think about it, fairies are forest creatures, and so they run around naked, and they are pure in spirit so they are innately sexual creatures. So, if a fairy were to have perched on my roof, she would probably be touching herself.
Later this touching morphed into the idea of her staring at the tree sculptures I am also planning.
I'll also talk about the free speech aspects of this project that appealed to me at the bottom of this page.
So, I pitched this idea to Marek, and he thought that it was a wonderful idea that would test his skill as a sculptor and give him something new to do that he had never done.

Now, the process of creating art is one of being careful to specify your vision and then let the artist execute it to the best of thier ability and to let them include thier vision as well. In my case, I had a pretty firm grasp on some parameters of the fairy, like how I wanted her posed, and some other things, so I went off, and found a model to let me take pictures of her so that Marek could have them to work from.
I'd like to point out that just doing the photo shoot was a lot of work. I had to get a wig, the wings, the column that represents the chimney pot, a hair and makeup person, a model, a photographer, and a location that was ok with me shooting there. Each one of these things took some time. This is the page that I created that he used as his source material" to work from.
By the way, you will notice not just artistic information, but also some structural information that my architect insisted that I include.

As Marek started in, the first thing he sent me was a drawing done by a friend of his as a responce to my page to show me what he had gotten from the page.

Mareks initial drawing to me showing me what he planned to build..

Now, the process of creating a Chimney Pot is not a fast one. Marek works with Terra Cotta clay, and it takes time after being thrown to dry enough to work the next peice onto it. So, every week, or month or so, I'd get updated photos of the progress. I'm going to show you what I got, and then at the end, I'll show you the finished fairy.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built: The base is first.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built: This is the start of the top,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, See, I've got 2 things built

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built: Add the ring to the base. Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, Closeup of that new Ring.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,Top and bottom with no barrell yet.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, barrel and top with no base.

Now that the barrell is done, we start in on the Fairy.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, A closeup of the start of the legs.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, The Fairies head is now done.

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built,

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, She is finished, but where are her wings?

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, Finished Fairy, highlighting the wings

Erotic Fairy Chimney Pot being built, At last, the finished product.


Now, if you want to see an online video of Marek making the chimeny pot (and it's well worth your time), it can be found at www.dragonfinials.co.uk. Just look for the "Erotic Fairy clip and watch it.




I promised to take some time to explain some more of my thinking about the erotic nature of the project, and so I'll do that here at the bottom.
First, I AM a big free speech, and freedom of expression advocate. I once sat on the Public Access "Content Review Board" for public access television here in Seattle. It was a board formed by the station to decide if content was obscene or not and could (or could not) be aired. I learned a lot about the legal definitions of these words, and I also saw firsthand the behaviour of people frightened by sexual content regardless of the law. There was one producer who basically said in a meeting, "Hey, whatever I've got to say to justify my position, I'll say, I don't want this on the air." Thats NOT upholding the law, and it's certainly NOT being fair. To me, this type of behaviour is offensive and wrong. I have also seen more and more occurrances of corporations afraid of the moral majority who won't advertize anything with sexual humor (like they do in europe), or anything risque at all. I think it makes our society more closed minded, and a poorer place to be, It also makes us more conformist, adn more judgemental, and it's part of the reason that the rest of the world hates us. Then, I saw Shakespere in Love on cable, adn they were so afraid of one 5 second long scene where Gwenneth Paltrows breast is onscreen that they had to digitall alter it to put a huge looming black shadow over her. This was not the intention of the screenwriter, the actress or the director. for shame. I realized that I have a place, here on my property where I am NOT subject to a cable corporations fears of advertizers, and I am NOt beholden to any other group of people, and I DO live in America - a land where we cling to the illusion that we are free despite ever tighening laws to regulate our behaviour, and I thought that I should put up art both that I want, as well as maybe stimulating some public debate on the subject.

By the way, if you are in favor of this type of art, PLEASE! EMAIL ME!!! John_Schlick@Hotmail.com. I'm making a record of all the replies that I get as part of the history of the house here.

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