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Medieval
Merriment Silver
Star Mountain Awards:
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Medieval Merriment This was Carl’s first
opportunity to design a piece on his own, and he chose to experiment
with a massive deconstruction of the block. On Day 1 of this two-day
event we just sliced and cut our block into small pieces. Then, as Carl
and I built the columns and arch tops in a "prefab" technique,
David started on the dancer and stone mason figures. It was quite a
tense moment when we lifted the fully carved arch tops up to their
resting place... we even survived a break in one of them. We worked through the night,
adding details and stacking blocks to create the flute-playing leader of
the dance. At about 5 am one of our neighbouring sculptors invited the
diehards in from a windy snowy blizzard to enjoy some hot coffee and
pastries at the Renaissance bakery where she works when not sculpting
snow. What a delicious moment. Carl topped off the capitals
with a fine lute and built the horn of the flute as David finished off
our hexagonal base and I hurried to sculpt the musicians' legs in the
final hours of the event. Once again we worked over 36 hours in the two
days allotted to us. |
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