Bust of a Tired Woman

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This piece started without a plan. As the forms came together, she slowly revealed herself, and with her, the emotion behind the sculpture.

To me, it’s a portrait of exhaustion. That quiet moment when you don’t have the energy to pretend everything is fine, and your thoughts disappear somewhere far away.

Like every emotion, it eventually passes. This was simply my attempt to capture one of those fleeting moments in sculpture.

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