Running Girl
Monumental Swoopie
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In Running Girl, I seek to gift you the feeling of wild abandon
meadow—not running for any purpose or health benefit—just for being alive on the earth and because you can. Running Girl is necessarily off-balance forward. That’s actually the only way you can run. But how to convey the slow run of casual joy? I hit on the idea of the streamers, undulating slowly in the trailing wind. Also, the leading leg prances high to show a frolicking gambol. The leaning shoulders complete the casual feel. She looks at the streamer, not the trail. To cap the experience, I adjusted the lines of the arms to flow smoothly with one another and mimic the undulating streamers. But she still conveyed too much purpose in her joyful run. I puzzled over why and finally noticed her left hand was clenched in my early models. When that hand opened up, I felt the joy. I could then begin to open my hands to make her physical creation. 2014-1stBank Civic and Concert Center, Broomfield, Colorado 2014-Miller Activity Campus, Castle Rock, CO 2014-Wells Fargo Havana Towers, Aurora, Colorado 2015-Center for the Arts-Evergreen, Colorado, 2016-Longmont Colorado, Greeley Colorado, and Main Street in Alamosa Colorado 2017-Art Trails, Moab Utah 2017-Permanent Collection-Watermark Residential, Parker Colorado 2018-Permanent Collection-San Luis Valley Medical Center, Alamosa, Colorado 2019-Permanent Collection-Private Collector, Golden Colorado 2024-Thunder River Theater Company, Carbondale,CO 2024-Main Street-Norfolk, Nebraska 2025-Prairie Arts Center-North Platte, Nebraska 2026-Sculpture Walk Across Nebraska-Grand Island Nebraska Medium: White Steel Height: 144 inches Base: 18 inch Circular Steel |
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