First Efforts

[Mari DeRuntz]

Interesting thread!

Here's my first sculpture, done when I was 17, influenced heavily by a trip to the Musee Rodin. My art teacher suggested she get a piece of marble for me to sculpt, but she was easily distracted and I regret she never got around to it.

I should have listened to my nature: we used to skip school and walk around Rome, searching out paintings by Caravaggio, looking for sculpture, architectural detail on buildings, visiting the mournful garden sculpture at the Protestant Cemetery. Lush.