Plague Doctor

I have not been drawing or sculpting as much as I would like. Partly this is being busy, but also I feel that I really need to get a studio set up.

This piece is just a little thing that I made while watching videos on Google SketchUp (which is pretty ingenious by the way). Doctors during the Black Plague would sometimes wear these beak masks filled with herbs, intended to act as a sort of gas mask. This was based on the miasma theory of disease, where it was thought that disease was carried by noxious air. Anyway, its such an inhuman image, and the idea of a doctor looking like this is cool.