“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.” Anaïs Nin
Changes are external events. They happen continuously. Transition is our internal response as we adapt to those changes. “Transition” symbolizes our passage through change – from one state to another. A time of growth, renewal, celebration, arrival. There are transitions in progress all around and within us every day.
Creation of this piece progressed quickly through the sketching phase. Refining the gesture was all done before the skin was applied. The armature as a complex wire structure is basically a line drawing in space. It can be manipulated endlessly until the gesture feels right. The real challenge was how to preserve translucency of one half of the figure while making the remaining half opaque.