Week Seven, Fall 2024

• Collaborated with June on a ladybug. 

• Finished my mini- I’m definitely learned a lot from sculpting bugs little. Many things that I hope will translate to larger sculptures in the future. I might also just stay in the little realm for the remainder of this semester? 

• We finished the statue of Simon Kenton this week. We got that clay rendering in early September 2023 and almost exactly 13 months later it's in bronze. Standing at 9 feet tall this is the largest bronze cast the foundry has done in a long time, if ever? Definitely the largest thing I've ever casted. The same artist has another 9 foot statue in wax and waiting to be dipped and cast. There is rumored another 2 in the same size and style for a series of 4. I don't like the content of the work or necessarily the style but I’m really proud to have seen and worked on this from start to finish. I really hope the skills I’ve been learning and honing on will be applied to work of my own someday. I’d love to make some large public art of a bug.