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Sculpture

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I wish to involve the viewer. Standing before “Rising”, looking upward, one may share the experience with the seated sculpture at the base of the relief.

Rising took eleven years to complete. Because I finished the figures or groupings of figures one at a time, I might look at it a month after it seemed finished, then revise it because of a new figure.

I was continually relating the latest figure to the earlier figures. Not calling any one figure complete until the whole was complete has allowed for a sense of depth.

Many women modeled for “Rising”, but subconsciously I was drawing from individuals and experiences I’ve had throughout my life. These are not figures arbitrarily placed. They express the different beings that are the subjects of the relief.

The central figure was the last to be completed : to me, a figure of compassion.

Smaller figures are meant to create the illusion of distance, often repeating with variation the gestures of the larger figures. Tying the implied background to the foreground allows an empathic quality to the viewing of “Rising”, wherein the viewer becomes a part of the whole.

Assuming that my total mind is a better gage than my conscious mind that is so influenced by current associations, I have to trust in a kind of totality of mind when moving through and completing any work of art.

At one point, the relief seemed to complete itself and I let it go.
- John Henry Waddell"

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