Then there was the neighbor that came out of her house yelling at Kevin to stop moving the sculpture that had graced a corner of the sculpture garden for a couple of years. Kevin looked at her quizzically as she explained that she could see that particualr sculpture from her kitchen window, had grown very fond of it, and didn’t want it moved.
Boxes, piled high in the store room, screaming for attention. After 33 years of stuffing items into boxes and 33 years of sculpting, it is time to purge. 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.
Any changes, even the slightest variations, requires incredicble changes throughtout the whole process, much less any engineering that has already been approved and stamped.
Enter the maquette. What a glorious means of visualizing a monumental sculpture! A maquette can be made with the same material to be utilized in the large scale scultpure and the artist can tweak till his heart’s content! A maquette is also instrumental in sharing the vision of the large scale sculpture the the client, be it a personal collector or a public arts venue.
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.
