Any sculpture piece I am working on waits patiently for me
to return to working it. Sometimes in working on a piece
of wood or stone I have a preconceived plan for the piece.
More often I listen to the stone or piece of wood and allow it
to take me where it would. Working with bronze is a very
different sculptural process involving several processes and
I have to have a fairly defined plan for the finished piece
before I start. The clay or wax used to begin the process is
malleable and a lot of fun to work. The process from soft
clay to wax to molten bronze is almost magical. Many things
can go wrong in making a sculpture. A stone or piece of
wood though quite hard is also very fragile and can be easily
fractured. A piece in wax or clay can be changed many
times before it is finished. I find this work a metaphor for
life. Some of us appear hard on the outside but may be very
fragile within and we can all change.