Shadow Sculpture Gallery

While it’s difficult to select which of your children is best, Dance of Memory is one of my favorites. In the foreground, we have an older man and an older lady walking. He is using a cane, she is clutching her coat in the wind. BUT in the Shadow: we see them in their memory, dancing in a flowing gown and a top hat. This piece came about when a friend sent a photo, obviously with the shadow photoshopped in – but I said Yes, that’s doable! I love it when people send suggestions.

Do you remember the movie poster for Breakfast At Tiffany’s, with the actress Audrey Hepburn holding a cigaretter holder in a long slinky dress?  That was part of the inspiration for this – the other was a pose at an event one day by a (female) blacksmith friend, holding her hammer in a manner that triggered the memory of the poster.  So in the artwork, we have a female blacksmith, holding a hammer in her right hand and tongs in her left hand.  The shadow gives the profile, like the movie poster, of a girl in a long dress with a cigarette holder.

Here’s an example of an Innie-Outie:  a work where the inside and the outside of the shadow area show two different images.  This example is a prototype – I never made a finished artwork of this.  As you see, the outside is a boy’s outline, the inside is a girls – so he’s thinking of her, or maybe just has her on his mind.

This features a clay moon by the noted artist Lois Hinman. Actually, this is the second clay moon Lois made for this: the first got destroyed in the 2019 earthquakes. The man and woman dancing come into focus when the viewer is about 5 feet away, lined up, and at an average eye height.

In the Bible, it says Faith, Hope, Love — But the Greatest of These is Love.

Here we have the word Love in the foreground.  This is a two-light, two-shadow work – the left shadow says Hope, the right shadow says Faith.