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Week 3 of People Helping Build the Princes Sculpture

10/17/2012

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Today's helper had symbolic significance.  Sofia Ciaravella was the daughter of Elizabeth, the girl who the Paper Bag Princess was named after.  Wow!  Now we have two generations of key participants, Elizabeth for the book princess and Sofia for the sculpture princess.

With only one helper today, I had time to mix and apply many batches of WInterstone clay.  Sofia's grandmother, Susan Moziar was kind enough to snap a photo of Sofia and me working together.  We shaped the head, arms and legs, focusing on building up the thighs.

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This was three groups combined.  I recognized Mary Mindorff Murphy's face the second she walked through the door as someone who used to work at Blount with me (although I hadn't recognized her name from emails setting up the time slot).  As a bonus, she gave me two old books about sculpting that weren't any use to her... but very interesting to me.  Mary applied Winterstone clay to the upper arms and cheeks of the princess.

The second part of the group was Brandon Fahey and his father Brad.  They adapted well to sculpting, treating it with care like icing a cake.  They worked on the princess' left hand, the back of the bag and the bottom of the bag.  Since we couldn't tip the sculpture on its side to work on the bottom, Brandon and Brad had to fight gravity, pushing the clay up under the bag.  By sticking clay along the edge they managed to extend the bag downward, creating the impression that the bag sides were thin walls like paper.  Brandon liked the way clay felt as it dried on his fingers and tried numerous times to convince his father to let him not was up.  Brad held firm, managing to protect his car and house from a trail of Winterstone hand prints.

The third part of the group was Jessica and Kate Nixon.  They enjoyed rubbing Winterstone to the princess' legs, arms and bag.  They loved the feel of Winterstone and had the messiest hands of any helpers to date.


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Mothers Laura Goulden and Dee Nixen were in the room but decided to stand back, watch, take pictures and chat with the sculptors rather than getting their hands dirty.  

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Olga Joe ciaravella
10/26/2012 10:55:06 am

I love my baby Sofia ,we are very praud of you Sofia, I like to see the Paper Bag Princes sculpture, love from nonni Ciaravella

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    Thousands of potential sculptures lie within each and every uncut stone.  Sometimes the destiny is obvious when I see a stone and sometimes releasing the sculpture within is a long journey following countless hints and inspirations.

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