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Two Toucans
terra-cotta wall-mounted bas-relief 9.25 x 6 inches -Sara Morris Swetcharnik |
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| Sara Morris Swetcharnik creates her sculptures while observing live animals, usually in zoological parks where the captive animals are professionally cared for. Usually she works rapidly in order to capture a certain mood or quality of action, leaving a sense of vitality in the roughness of the surface, as in her high relief sculptures of the gorilla and orangutan. Occasionally, however, she will spend as long as a year refining the details, as in the case of her bronze sculpture of the Komodo dragon yearling. Often the sculptures are integrated with their bases and other surrounding treatments, emphasizing the relationship of the animal to its earth environment. |
