Moonlighting
2000, Bronze, 23" h x 11 /2" w x 11" d, edition 12
From the time I began working with this model I was intrigued with the attitude her body falls into when seated on a stool. It was both a challenge and a pleasure attempting to capture her expression, all the time not pinpointing what the "expression" was really saying. There I was working in my world while the model was working in her world, each of us coming together for different reasons, each of us entitled to our own thoughts, our separateness.
I have often said that a work is completed when it conveys a soul of its own, and I feel that this sculpture does. I feel the work conveys her expression but I did not capture her soul. Obviously, she is indifferent to me, or anybody else who attempts to figure her out. I paid her to model for me but her life is her own. We work for a living because we need to make money, but that is not always where our spirit is. I have a job so that I can earn the money to make my art. I make my art to feed my soul. And so it is with her and that is why I call her "Moonlighting".
From the time I began working with this model I was intrigued with the attitude her body falls into when seated on a stool. It was both a challenge and a pleasure attempting to capture her expression, all the time not pinpointing what the "expression" was really saying. There I was working in my world while the model was working in her world, each of us coming together for different reasons, each of us entitled to our own thoughts, our separateness.
I have often said that a work is completed when it conveys a soul of its own, and I feel that this sculpture does. I feel the work conveys her expression but I did not capture her soul. Obviously, she is indifferent to me, or anybody else who attempts to figure her out. I paid her to model for me but her life is her own. We work for a living because we need to make money, but that is not always where our spirit is. I have a job so that I can earn the money to make my art. I make my art to feed my soul. And so it is with her and that is why I call her "Moonlighting".