The unidentifiable object

For some years now I have been seeking (or hoping) to come across an object so curious that I wouldn't be able to identify what I was looking at. I have tried to enlist the help of friends in this quest but it isn't easy to describe something that is indescribable - some 'thing' that is not recognisably 'animal, vegetable or mineral'.
It struck me only recently that there are parallels between this search and my struggle to make paintings.

More often than not when I am creating a painting I am striving to achieve a look/feeling that I only 'know' when I see it. Frustratingly I know when it is not 'right' and I just have to keep on changing things until (hopefully) I find 'it'. It was Picasso I think that said that "I don't seek, - I find". Although I have to confess that I am not sure that I fully understand what he meant, my interpretation is that 'it is more fruitful not to wait until inspiration strikes but to produce work and the ideas are generated by this activity'.

So, instead of waiting in the forlorn hope that I would discover the unidentifiable object, I made it - or at least had an attempt at making it. I am no sculptor and what I have made is crude and fragile, but strangely satisfying. Having made it, I am still no nearer to knowing what it is, or why I felt the need for it. I am in the midst of including it in a trio of paintings so perhaps I shall find out. It may remain a mystery.

Tantalisingly, but not deliberately so, you will have to wait until you can see it as I haven't yet reached the point where anything is fit to photograph. It won't be long I promise.