{"id":432,"date":"2013-05-08T04:18:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/?p=432"},"modified":"2013-05-08T04:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T04:36:34","slug":"genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis of a New Sculpture Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"

History is replete with examples of inspiration in science & art coming from dreams, sounds in nature, things that children say, etc. Since the inspiration behind a work of art is always interesting to folks, here is an example of the circuitous lines of thinking that went into a recent sculpture. \u00b6On one particular morning I was out for a jog with the dogs, and\u00a0after detouring around two large bull bison on the trail, we encountered a group of mule deer. The deer were visibly distressed by the sight of the dogs \"cactus\"in my mind immediately jumped to some of the research on Yellowstone wolves showing how the body gestures of wolves convey the seriousness of their hunting efforts to their prey. When wolves\u00a0have zeroed in on a particular animal, their gait increases, their head is lowered and tail straightened out to the back, rather than up as their heads and tails are when searching out a prospective meal. With this in mind, I looked back at our female Labrador, Casey, who had a\u00a0‘hunting’ body posture as she was darting amongst the prickly pear cactus. I wondered if this was signaling to those deer what the wolves do during a chase? From there, my mind jumped to the fact that wolves and coyotes must get spines in their feet during some of these chases. This gave me the overwhelming feeling of empathy for them in that powerlessness state of not being able to tend to their own injuries, or not having people to care for them as our dogs do. We all know this feeling to a degree when we become injured or\u00a0encounter things, people, situations\u00a0in life that we cannot change. \"IMGP6959q\"To fight them does no good, to complain often\u00a0does even less – SO, I began thinking of a piece that spoke to that notion. Once I got home I made a quick sketch on paper (above) out of my head of the position our male Labrador takes when worrying his feet from cactus spines. I wanted to use those gestures\u00a0as exemplified by a\u00a0coyote as the subject\u00a0to convey this idea. I later made this small wax study to test the idea in 3D (to the right & below). I soon felt that it needed something ‘more’ and the cactus (scaled to south Texas size as our cactus are quite small in Montana) seemed to balance\u00a0the\u00a0design nicely – as\u00a0well as to lend context\u00a0to the animal’s slightly unusual position.<\/p>\n

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History is replete with examples of inspiration in science & art coming from dreams, sounds in nature, things that children say, etc. Since the inspiration behind a work of art is always interesting to folks, here is an example of the circuitous lines of thinking that went into a recent sculpture. \u00b6On one particular morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-studio","category-out-about","category-sketches-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgebumann.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}