Jacob Foran

I like the way Jacob Foran incorporates musical instruments as headdresses on his pieces. This one especially was really cool with multiple trumpet bells fused into one hat. The shining brass of the hat contrasts the dullness of head, in material that the head is made of and in expression of the face.

Heads by Victoria Shamrell

So I found these heads while I was looking online at heads. I thought it was very interesting how the artist decided to go with a flat face instead of trying to do the whole head. The head looks like it could be based off Indian  people based how the eyes seems larger then normal and there is almost like a decoration in the middle of the forehead. I know most Indian cultures call them bindi and they are used as a forehead decoration.

Alia Hynek on Tip Toland

Tip Toland

Toland pulls people in two opposite directions with her work. While being ultimately realistic and finitely detailed, the viewer cannot help but be awed by the art before them. At the same moment, her sculptures are of people that aren't outright beautiful. In looking at the sculpture above, the huge grin and laughing shoulders of the man should invoke memories of happiness; but his happy stature is paired with only a handful of teeth, wrinkles, and age spots that remind the viewer of mortality. Happiness in the face of impending death is an interesting moral, and Toland hit the nail right on the head with this sculpture.The beauty in the ugly is captured in quite a bit of her work, and because of this interesting combination, Toland will stand the test of time.