billytomted - The Monday Morning Memo

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(Andrew will answer, of course, but Corrine is in the next office.)
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“In his rendering of The Entrepreneur, sculptor Dean Kermit Allison gives us a revealing look at the self-made man in his relentless struggle to chisel himself from common stone. Blindfolded, the Entrepreneur must trust his instincts. He has no way of knowing how all this will turn out.

His face bears the marks of those who would stop him while he is in this most vulnerable stage. His hand is battered from misplaced strokes of the hammer, constant reminders of his own mistakes. The exact position of the right leg has yet to be determined. The stone reveals two distinct possibilities.

To carve the leg forward and unbent at the knee would allow him to make use of a natural outcropping in the rock, perfectly positioned to accommodate the front half of the foot. To bend the knee would allow him to make use of another natural rock formation that seems to offer a finished calf. The choice is in the future, but it must be made. Whether or not to bend the knee is a choice that faces every entrepreneur.

As we continue to study this figure of bronze, it becomes obvious that the blindfold has been no impediment to his progress. His instinct has been remarkable. His enemies have not been able to stop him. He has overcome his mistakes.

The greatest danger is in his own hands. The angle of this chisel is far too aggressive. It seems the rapid removal of such a volume of stone requires a chisel judged by many to be much too direct. Spectators continue to gather and watch with mounting interest … will his next stroke be the one that cuts him off at the knees?

Like The Entrepreneur, each Allison bronze tells a powerful story of human emotion. Having translated for you most of the story of Allison’s Entrepreneur, I will leave you to put the rest of his work into words of your own.

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- Roy H. Williams (1988)

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