BALANCE
3/4 Lifesize
by Shray

60” x18" x 18”
Bronze Edition of 20

I remember this sculpture in my studio — so tall and so sure they were in each other.  My dearest friend, my mom, was still with us then.  A great artist in her own right, she looked at it with me when I thought it was done (like we had done so many times before).  With her gentle but sure voice she said, ”Shray, the form, the line is so perfect except . . .” I looked at her . . . she smiled.

I followed her gaze and she was right, “See,” she said, “just take off one inch on the man’s ribs and you will have done well.”

I took the clay off and the sculpture was changed,  the balance was perfect now.  I turned to her, the look of fulfillment, such a smile, I remember on her face, she was still a great artist despite her illness that had taken half her sight.  Thanks, mom, what a gift you left me.

She named it “Balance”.

 

BALANCE
by Shray

30" x 8" x 6" 
Bronze Edition of  40

 

 

BALANCE
by Shray

A third size: Also see Shray's new REDUCTION of Balance, a part of her new Artist Nostalgia Series.

 

 

Balance received First Place in “Her Story,” a juried competition at Manhattan Arts, New York, New York