Giraffe (tall)

This was one of the first animals in my Square Menagerie to gain some serious height, at least, for my sculptures. More importantly, this was my first dance with carving negative space into a sculpture. Once I had my wax original completed (with the body and neck as one piece, set apart from the four

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Zebra

The original was built from layers of hand-poured wax sheets, melted together, then cut, formed and joined. Once the body was complete, I cut the stripes out of the wax, intending them to be dark negative spaces to contrast with the ultimately mottled white patina. So that’s what I did. Cut, cut, cut. It was

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