{"product_id":"first-love-sculpture","title":"First Love - Sculpture","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst Love\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eChicken Wire, cardboard, packing paper, synthetic hair, repurposed beads, repurposed curtain rod.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e54\" x 40\" x 30\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eFirst Love is a life-scale, two-part sculpture: a seated human figure playing a cello, both the player and the instrument built from the same recycled and repurposed materials — chicken wire, packing paper, cardboard, pantyhose, curtain rod, repurposed beads. Figure and instrument are inseparable, sharing origin, sharing material, sharing form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe figure is fully realized as a human form. The body is rendered in dark pantyhose-wrapped chicken wire, the hexagonal mesh visible beneath the surface like skin over bone. Long hair cascades from the head in looped and curled wire. The figure leans into the instrument with physical commitment — not posed, but playing. Woven into the torso is paper printed with sheet music, as if the music lives inside the player's body, not just in the instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe cello is built differently — lighter, more open. Kraft paper and packing paper are torn and layered in organic strips across the chicken wire armature, creating a body that is pale, textured, almost geological. The curtain rod serves as the bow, held in the figure's dark hand mid-draw. The two forms — dark figure, pale cello — are opposites made from the same materials. They belong to each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThe piece sits in a simple wooden folding chair. That ordinariness is intentional. This is not a formal portrait. It is an everyday act of devotion — a person and the thing they love most, inseparable from the first time they touched it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eEvery material in First Love was headed for a landfill. The packing paper, the cardboard, the pantyhose, the beads — objects discarded without ceremony. Craig Davoll's practice is rooted in the belief that thrown-away things still hold value, still hold memory, still hold form waiting to be found. In First Love, those materials become a player, become an instrument, become a love story made entirely from what others let go.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Davoll Sculpted Gear","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49923186884847,"sku":null,"price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0794\/9565\/9759\/files\/IMG_2733.jpg?v=1782162781","url":"https:\/\/davollsculptedgear.com\/products\/first-love-sculpture","provider":"Davoll Sculpted Gear","version":"1.0","type":"link"}