Hyper-Realistic Polychrome Clay Snail (3 pics)

The way Italian sculptor Carmelo Leone molded this hyper-realistic snail from polychrome clay is truly amazing. After staring at this piece for awhile now, it's still hard for me to believe that this snail isn't real.

Carmelo Leone is a self-taught artist who was born in Lecce, Italy in 1954. As stated on his website, "he connotes objects of daily use with soul and identity in a way that the revisited object conveys feelings and emotions that inspired its creator."

Carmelo Leone's website

Tags: Carmelo Leone, Clay, Hyper-Realistic, Polychrome, Snail

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Comment by sAm on February 25, 2010 at 10:43am: Where's the salt? Just kidding! Looks so real.

Comment by Inka Leoni on February 24, 2010 at 6:42pm: lol..makes me wonder of the snail would leave that ink jar and become a slug after that.
I wonder if the ink jar is it's home a safe haven..or if it's a form of confinement. Something heavy the creature has to carry on its back all the time and has to crawl back into, at one point, whether he likes it or not.

Or maybe it's just an ink blob and anyone can create anything with it with a little bit of imagination.

Makes me think that as soon as something has taken a certain shape or form by the hand of an artist, the artist would have already taken away part of his/her creative freedom.