Chicken or the Egg?

This piece was started towards the end of September when I was asked by the Crocker Art Museum to do a demonstration for their October Harvest Artmix event. I had found some interesting gourds, a pink pumpkin, a rubber chicken, and an egg, for props. It was shelved after I decided to focus on abstract forms. Even though it is not the direction I've chosen for my thesis, it is still about the clash of beauty and the grotesque, artifice and nature.

This is the first round of color before bisque firing. It is approximately 18"l x 16"w x 17"h.