Stretching the Imagination
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© Susan Dorothea White
Stretching the Imagination, 2014bronze, granite base
57 x 179 x 55 cm (bronze)
Artist’s proof, uneditioned
Collection of the artist
Digital scan of wax Stretching the Imagination (version with life-size hands) used to make rough enlarged version in polystyrene. The scale of the sculpture required three separate sections of wax to be poured then joined. The artist detailed the wax, shaping the hands, fingernails, etc. at the foundry. Master mould held at Crawford’s Casting, South Strathfield, NSW.
Available through Josef Lebovic Gallery - please email: josef@joseflebovicgallery.com
In this large outdoor version, the hands are three-times natural size. The idiom ‘stretching the imagination’ is expressed through life-like hands literally stretching a face to create elongated hollows in the eye sockets and cheeks and a broad smiling mouth. The spaces allow the sculpture to merge with the surroundings and the views through them stimulate the imagination. The sculpture is rounded and tactile, and its low stature allows interaction with the entire surface.