There was a huge push in August to finish the sculptures for the Yew Dell Sculpture Show, right on the heals of getting back from Meg's Alaska sculpture installation. That knocked the wind out of us and it took a while to "get in the mood" for sculpting more stone.
I started out lightly by creating this stylized Dove out of Brazilian Marble.
Then, I started to have a little fun. I made this "Safe" bench.
...and walking around the piece...
...and looking at the next view...
...and coming full circle around the piece.
There's been some great weather for working outside, so I made some progress on the large hands, too.
This comparison photo shows the progress that was made on the back.
The Safe Bench was inside and I only worked on it when it rained. I spent a lot of mornings, in the shade, working on finishing the Comet bench (left) and Harmony (middle). Ecliptic (right) is being planned for a dry landscape installation, similar to Japanese rock gardens.
I've also made a scale clay model for another couple of stone elements to complete the installation. The Japanese aesthetic has a careful relationship between 3 stone elements as the primary focus of a garden - I'm trying to emulate that consideration with the addition of a "Mars" in TN red marble and a Jupiter with moons in IN limestone. The largest element represents the Sun on it's curved path around our galaxy. The 3 inner planets are represented; the smallest is Mercury and the 2 that are approximately the same size are Venus and Earth. The paths of the planets are actually curving spirals as they chase the sun around the Milky Way. Even if you're sitting still right now, you are hurtling through space at about 230 miles every second - something to think about....
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