My client came by today and brought his wife to see the mom and baby sculpture. As I said before he was creating this for her for her birthday. She loved it and was so surprised. I’m glad I could give her something to remember her birthday by, but sad that I could not send her home with the bronze today. It was important to me to work hard for her to have something to look at on her birthday. It was a long night but I did it and both she and her husband seemed pleased. I think it is a good piece and I am glad it is going bronze limited edition of ten. The other detailed version will not be going to bronze until I find a buyer for it.

I also received approval for the bust of the man shown below. So they will both going into the foundry process next week.

After days of doing the detailed version of the mom and baby I spent the night working on the simplified version. Ugggg… I groaned, searching for inspiration in contemporary sculpture books. Funny it feels like I had to get the detailed version, the emotions and passion from it to get capture that it the simplified version. Hubby came in and said, try this, this and this. I don’t think it was anything anyone had to say or advise. I just think sometimes you need to spend time with a piece. Enough time and enough pushing and you get to what you were after, even if you never knew what that was supposed to be when you started.

I also though I would post this little tiny head from the other version. I always think it is funny when I am holding a tiny little body part in my hand. I think I am just drawn to miniature things- dollhouses, and stories of little people.

Is it mother and baby or midwife in baby in this logo? I wonder, and yet the mother in me says it is mother. My child is 22, last month, graduated from college and headed off to live on her own, but staying with us for the summer. What a long journey from that moment of adoration, connection, dependency. The rest of the journey is spent breaking away, growing yes, but breaking away. This commission comes at an appropriate time and I fine myself reminiscing and thinking about many different things. What this logo depicts is an incredible moment, unlike any other. I remember the world could have disappeared. It might have even done so as I sat in the hospital 22 years ago. I want to stop working on this and then create a simplified version, now that I have found the passion and the connection, the movement I just can’t stop working on this sculpture.