The Critic (or “Don’t Leave Your Paperback On The Veranda”)

11.5" x 8.25" x 5" Edition of 18, © 2016

An incident on safari in Kenya inspired this sculpture and gave me an excuse to sculpt a vervet monkey whose real life models provide many hours of entertainment around so many safari camps in Africa. One soon learns not to have or leave any food within sight of these little imps but it wasn’t until Suzanna showed up at sundowners, chuckling, with the remains of her shredded paperback in hand that we realized that anything left unattended was fair game for these mischievous simians.