One person sees an animal, another sees a sail boat, and yet another individual could see a sunset. And why does that sculpture need to represent anything anyway? Why not a feeling, an emotion, a memory? If that contemporary sculpture elicits a feeling, an emotion or a memory (good or bad), then the sculptor has succeeded!
“It took me 4 years to paint like Rapheal, but a lifetime to paint like a child” Pablo Picasso
creating scultpure in a smaller sized version allows the artist to feel it, change it, look at it from 360 degrees and make any necessary changes that it requires to create that dream that is dancing within the sculptor’s head. In building large scale sculpture, this freedom is lost. The logisitics of building monumenntal sculptures removes the freedom of literally picking up the material and “feeling” what needs to happen. Any changes, even the slightest variations, requires incredicble changes throughtout the whole process, much less any engineering that has already been approved and stamped.
What a history lesson for a sculptor! First off, all the slides, slides, and even more slides; then, the piles, piles and even more piles of negatives. Gone, thankfully, are the days of taking a zillion shots, having sides developed, then just setting them aside after discovering that one fabulous slide of that one fabulous stainless steel sculpture that was created, then destroyed.
Speaking of inspiration for artists, nothing inspires a person like a brightly lit night with the moon spreading it’s light and enveloping the sculpture garden.
