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Terracotta clay, 13" x 18" (finished)

This is considerably larger than figures I've been working on up to this point, but trying to push the envelope... and as a result, gave me quite a few technical problems (mostly solved)

One of the interesting challenges with this piece was coming up with a title.

Often, when I begin work on a piece, I will have a picture in my head of the composition and content of the figure, but I don't usually have a title. In most cases, as I work with the figure, the title will become evident to me, sometimes almost as if the figure tells me what its title should be. Sometimes, it's as I photograph the finished piece and start posting it on the Web that the title comes.

With this figure, I could feel the emotion in the figure, as if I was seeing the whole story, but I had a difficult time putting words around it. After a great deal of time spent simply staring at it, the title began to narrow down to "Sunrise". I didn't want to be too prescriptive, narrowing down the observer's interaction with the figure, so I left it at that.

Description
Terracotta clay, 13" x 18" (finished)

This is considerably larger than figures I've been working on up to this point, but trying to push the envelope... and as a result, gave me quite a few technical problems (mostly solved)

One of the interesting challenges with this piece was coming up with a title.

Often, when I begin work on a piece, I will have a picture in my head of the composition and content of the figure, but I don't usually have a title. In most cases, as I work with the figure, the title will become evident to me, sometimes almost as if the figure tells me what its title should be. Sometimes, it's as I photograph the finished piece and start posting it on the Web that the title comes.

With this figure, I could feel the emotion in the figure, as if I was seeing the whole story, but I had a difficult time putting words around it. After a great deal of time spent simply staring at it, the title began to narrow down to "Sunrise". I didn't want to be too prescriptive, narrowing down the observer's interaction with the figure, so I left it at that.