From:
"Clive Murray-White" <clivemw@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:52:50 +1100
Subject:
sculptural preferences
Dear John,
This is my dilemma, because some of the heads that I make are up to 5 times
life size and could easily be described as massive and walk around. I worry
a lot about creating authority figures so I purposely set them up so that
their eyes are a little lower than the viewer's, this seems to have the
desired effect. But, I sense that it also makes them a little less massive
than they could be if they were perched on top of a taller structure like
the giant Pharaoh heads in The British Museum which I seem to remember are
substantially smaller.
Of the examples that you mention the Olmec heads from Mexico seem to be
about the closest to being both massive and approachable. Obviously they are
stylistically very different to my work and I think this is why the Mt
Rushmore issue crops up.
Click on my web site at the bottom of this letter and tell me if you think a
2metre + or 6ft + sculpture of mine would stay large in its own right or
have problems.
Regards Clive
Sculptor Clive Murray-White
Web: www.cowwarr.com
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