tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946458937604608009.post781330224174166678..comments2023-11-09T12:42:52.976-08:00Comments on Clear Heart Blog: Cigar Boxes - the Other Tool ChestJoe Cottonwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12282993255868590544noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946458937604608009.post-89094163479847791042008-12-10T08:15:00.000-08:002008-12-10T08:15:00.000-08:00I confess I'd never heard of H C Westermann, but n...I confess I'd never heard of H C Westermann, but now I'm intrigued. I was just speaking of war vets, and of course carpenters, and here's a sculptor with some pretty obvious war demons to deal with - and he made sculptures of houses. I'm reading more...Joe Cottonwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12282993255868590544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5946458937604608009.post-86220002463836522692008-12-10T06:17:00.000-08:002008-12-10T06:17:00.000-08:00One wallof H C Westermann's studio /shop was fille...One wallof H C Westermann's studio /shop was filled with cigar boxes labelled with all the possibly useful bits for his sculptures. <BR/>And then ther was a trapeze and a rope for him to keep limber since he had been an acrobat earlier in his career.<BR/>Look him up if you don't know the work - sort of gloomy surrealist carpenter poet.R Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17599921449937172809noreply@blogger.com