On this program I thought I would try
something a little different. I worked for many years as a sculptor
in my part-time.
When I joined the pro-life movement, many
of those who participated had attractive young ladies who wanted to
pose and who were willing to
symbolize figures from both the Old Testament
and the New Testament. When I first asked a young lady to pose for me,
we would do a portrait just to find out, to see
if she was photogenic or I should say say
sculpturegenic. Now as I stated these first portraits were to determine
if the girl would be a good model, and as you can see I think you will admit Camille
was a very beautiful girl. Now this is a portrait of Veronica.
Camille proved to be a very excellent model
for Veronica. And if you take a look at the
image on the veil, I happened to pose for
the image of Jesus myself although it's not a very good image.
Maybe you can see my likeness. Following the portrait
of Veronica, Camille and I worked on an image
of the Blessed Virgin Mary and we call this piece
the Immaculate Heart. The five circles on her forehead
symbolize the Rosary. On each side, there are five triangles
and five squares. The circle, square and triangle
of course symbolize the Trinity. This is one of my
favorite pieces and I especially liked the way the hands worked out
and also the Immaculate Heart. For my next piece with Camille, I wanted to do
a woman from the Old Testament so I believe this
could best be titled The Queen of Sheba. As you can see,
Camille brings out the exotic in this particular portrait.
Karen was a beautiful Latino girl I met in Atlanta
and I knew she would make a good model so we skipped over the
first portrait stage and
so I decided to do another figure from the Old Testament
and this piece is called Esther. I was only able to do
one portrait of Monique but I think she would have been good
as either a model for an Old Testament figure or
even for the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is the first portrait I did of Becky
and this is a somewhat different material. This is
cast in hydrocal rather than most of the other pieces
which were cast in polyester and fiberglass resin.
Becky posed for this piece and she has a kind of a quizzical look on her face.
I think we could call her the Woman at the Well.
And if I zoom in on Becky's face, I think
you can see what I mean. Becky posed for this piece also
and I call this sculpture, Jerusalem. This is cast in fiberglass and of course
as such it's very lightweight
and can be used as a wall plaque. I met this girl
at a Pius X Latin Mass meeting
and she was a very beautiful model but to tell you the truth I can't even
remember her name at this point. This is the only life-size
sculpture I have created and actually two of my models posed for this.
Becky posed for the body part and Sheri posed for the face.
I call this piece
Miss Pro-Life, Sidewalk Counselor.
Both of the models who posed for this were very pro-life,
in fact they both have large families now. This sculpture is called Our Lady of
the Apocalypse
because she appears in the book of Revelation. On her head she wears
a crown of twelve stars
and the Rosary and the scapular that she holds
are of course symbolized by the two wings of a great eagle.
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