Moving from 2-d into sculpture…
![1082-a-eros-offering-tribal](https://michaelabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1082-a-eros-offering-tribal.jpg)
![Psychopomp72dpimichaelabraham_000](https://michaelabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Psychopomp72dpimichaelabraham_000.jpg)
While I exclusively painted and drew for many years, starting at the Ontario College of Art in 1984, sculpting became a natural extension of my creative practice much later on. On a camping trip in the summer of 2006, I was hacking away with a dull knife, carving a fish out of firewood. Such splintery fingered pleasure, It was mentally engaging and it came to me quite readily. Upon returning from the summer trip I secured a few soapstones and carving tools and I went about carving (not unlike Dick Van Dyck in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!). After a few carvings in soapstone and it being the dusty affair that it is, I turned to sculpting with wax-based clay. The additive and subtractive allowance gave me full freedom to play and evolve forms.
![Tackling the Bull - Tackling the Beast](https://michaelabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/michael-tackling-the-bull-beast.jpg)
![Michael Abraham with Tackling the Bull web 72dpi](https://michaelabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Michael-Abraham-with-Tackling-the-Bull-web-72dpi.jpg)
![Tackling the Bull](https://michaelabraham.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Michael-Abraham-tackling-the-bull-sculpture-at-gallery-Jones-opening-2006.jpg)