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Tery Baker - St. George’s Dragon
Category: Sculpture.
Over a substructure that I sculpted, a beadwork piece of flat peyote stitch was wrapped and secured. Beads were then stitched to the top and bottom of this piece in a modified brick stitch style until the entire dragon was covered with beads. The eyes are single beads sewn to the head. Eyelids, scales, wings, tail tip and sword are either brick or freeform stitches.
A long time ago in a land far away there was a fearsome dragon who terrorized the countryside. When it flew, the flapping of its wings could be heard throughout the entire kingdom. One blow from its talons could fell a bull. It breathed acrid smoke and fire.
Every year a maiden was offered to this horrible beast so it would spare the country. One year this fate befell Princess Sabra, the daughter of the king.
She was saved by the valiant knight Saint George. With his mighty sword Ascalon he wounded the dragon so badly that the princess was able to wrap her scarf around it’s neck and lead it into the town square. There the pathetic, defeated animal was slain by Saint George with a single blow.
I have chosen to represent the dragon mortally wounded, tangled in Princess Sabra’s scarf, with the sword Ascalon imbedded in its flesh.