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This is a sculpture that Don began and then abandoned.
I (Meg) have decided to try to make something out
of it. This is just a personal piece that will be
completed around my other commissioned pieces (doing
mold work on LSU's Connections and casting a maquette
for the UNI panther). It's been about ten months since
I have carved stone and I'm anxious to get back to
carving. This sculpture will be a dancer leaping.
I am fascinated by the movements of dance and will
try to capture some of that feeling in this piece.
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After a few days, the sculpture begins to take shape.
First I carve the torso roughly in and block out where
the arms and legs are. I am carving wide of the form
and I will refine as I go.
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I'm not entirely sure what the form is going to be
coming up behind the dancer that acts as a support.
I toyed with the idea of mist, but discarded the idea.
Right now I'm making movements in the stone to break
up the vertical line it started out with.
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From this angle you can see that the stone is vertical
on the left side. I will take out various sections
to add movement.
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