Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads wood (basswood)
Manto’s Departure
2008
wood (basswood)
24' x 12" x 6"
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads wood
Woman With a Nail
2012
wood
26" x 18" x 8"

Song of a Woman with a Nail by Terry-Anya Hayes/

Nail. says he,/
yet I have none/
nor do remember/
having one/

but O the axe that felled me/
the adze that shaped me/
the bite of these/
is with me/

Woman? He must lie,/
for what is gender/
to such as I?/

with swollen arm upraised,/
sucked of sap, naked of leaves/
no wind shakes me

reduced to thought/
and here at last to words,/
more even than release I crave/
the sweet remembered weight of birds/

This poem was written in response to my sculpture. An example of my response to one of Terry-Anya's poems is my Adolescence painting - see my Imaginative Paintings.

Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads wood
Woman With Nail (back view)
2012
wood
26" x 18" x 8"

The figure holds a nail in her left hand
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads basswood
Dionysus Despondent
2023
basswood
13 1/2' x 8" 1/2 x 9 1/2"

Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads wood
The Embrase
2013
wood
25" high
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads basswood
Head With Blemish
2022
basswood
11" x 6" x 7"

Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads basswood
Woman - Hair Down
2023
basswood
14 1/2" x 12 "x 6"
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads basswood
Woman With Spade Shape Hair Tie
2023
basswood
15 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 10"

Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads apple wood
Woman With Two Disks
2007
apple wood
13 x 2.5 x 5"
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads
Woman With Two Disks

Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads
Woman With Two Disks
Sam Thurston Wood Sculpture - Figures and heads wood
Woman With Horn and Shield
2000
wood
14 x 9 x 4"