Lost Mountain Clayworks

What is the history of a gargoyle? Distinguished Frenchman Emile Male and most critics after him said:

No symbolism can explain the monstrous fauna of the cathedrals...
If ever works are exempt of meaning surely these are...
All attempts at explanation must be foredoomed to failure.

Champions of the holy who helped protect their flock from the really evil demons? Just wild and weird carvings by medieval stonemasons to augment cathedral rooftop plumbing?

There doesn't seem to be a consistent or definitive scholarly consensus.

These two are a pair - fired together in the Soulgama, a Japanese-design wood-fueled kiln. Two faces on each piece - one side blasted by ash melt, the other more focused and detailed. All faces powerful.

I made them because I could. Have sculpted faces on pots of all shapes for over thirty years. No baloney about visions, dreams or religions. Suddenly there they were.