I decided to challenge myself to making a representative work of someone I know, aswell as admire. This is more difficult than it first appears as you end up being influenced by all those little factoid imaginings and personal history about someone, when the objective is always to leave as much out as possible. It is sometimes easier to build an image up from nothing, than to distill from complex experience. The work is life-sized and the final casting (upper left) will be mounted on a stout pedestal. 