Dancing Hares
1998, Edition of 6, Height: 15 feet (4.57 metres )
Working on the Dancing Hares plaster for bronze. The sculpture took several months to make and used over two tons of plaster, twenty sacks of wood shavings and a twenty foot high stack of newspaper. In the winter, snow and wind swept through the studio so plaster had to be applied warm and as quickly as possible before freezing took place. Sophie finished the Dancing Hares the day before she was due to leave for France. It was to be moulded the next morning, As the sculpture was so large she couldn't get back far enough in the studio to get a good view so waiting until it was dark, she switched on all the studio lights and went out across the yard to view the work from a distance. To her horror she realised that the proportions of one of the legs were wrong and so, that night, had to chop it off, re position and make the plaster good. The dilemma as always is between knowing when something is finished and being pressurised to finish, and then there is also Sophie, who always wants to make one last change....more