Clayton Bailey's inflatable rubber grubs are balloon-like objects held in shape by low air pressure. He makes a latex casting from the wet clay, rather than make a heavy, fragile ceramic object.

The latex skins are light-weight and unbreakable, and are inexpensive and easy to handle and to transport.

"Latex sculpture has a unique flexibility, texture, and intimacy in its skin-like qualities, and an odor which is unlike anything else. "

"My technique for making these latex sculptures is to build a wet clay model which is then coated with liquid latex by pouring, spraying or brushing.

When the proper thickness of latex has been built up, a small opening is cut in the latex skin and the soft clay is removed. The skin is then turned inside-out to expose the textured details in the model. After sealing the cut and adding an air inflation valve, the piece is ready for display.

Color is applied by painting a mixture of latex and acrylic paint inside, or outside of the skin."

Clayton Bailey's rubber latex grubs are like segmented worms, up to 8 feet long; some with bulging eyeballs, breasts, tentacles or tiny caterpillar legs.

His inflatable rubber sculptures are unbreakable, and easy to ship, but they have slow air leaks that keep him too busy inflating the sculptures every day.