Just this morning a woman was walking her dog, stopped, and asked who the artist was. She stated that the sculptures displayed in the yard were such a boost to the neighborhood. Her daily walks always entailed
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
The art of 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.
Any changes, even the slightest variations, requires incredicble changes throughtout the whole process, much less any engineering that has already been approved and stamped.
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. This winter it seems as if there were numerous nights that the moon was particularly bright, or, were there just more nights that the clouds opened up for us to enjoy the delights of a brightly lit
