"Though My Body Aches, My Blood Runs Strong"
by Gary Lange

This photo was taken in mid Feb 2000. A couple months later I went into various coloration options in Adobe Photoshop and did this version as a rough simulation of what one might order in bronze. Compare this photo to the one below which was taken in August 1998. It took a lot of time and work to slowly refine the rough composition I had at that point. Even the above photo is outdated by over a year work. Whenever I work on the sculpture, whether from a model, with a friend, or by myself, it does seem I make progress.. Sometimes when I look at photos I have taken from a year or two ago, I do wonder how much progress I am making. But there is a very real difference between looking at this sculpture from a photo, and being in my studio looking at the actual artwork. It is when I am in my studio, looking at, or walking around the sculpture, that I am aware of all the hard work I have put into the think. While it is true that it will take even more time to bring this sculpture to a point where I can cast it, there is no question it is getting close. When people come over to my studio they often comment on how the the figuresin the sculpture feel like they move before their very eyes... These are the kind of compliments a sculptor lives for.

No, this isn't an actual article in a real magazine, but sometimes I wonder if I should finish this sculpture with a computer. I took Corel PhotoPaint and overlaid the water and the words on an old photo-image of the sculpture. Ultimately, I developed a fountain surrounding the whole sculpture, but while this picture is old and out dated, it does show the possibility of using only the two bodies to form the fountain. Perhaps a surrounding fountain is laid in with stones and such. I'm flexible. What I would like to see is that the entire fountain is surrounded by water and that water flows over all of its sides from various low points in the waves. This really would be very little extra work from the perspective of the clay fountain itself. Obviously a pool would have to be installed.