Work Out With Me
As a successful physical therapist with my own private practice at a busy upscale shopping center, I fancied that I should also offer a fitness program.
It was a sunlight-bathed large room with work-out equipment, a place to do floor work and yes, several of my sculptures mixed in. This was done to motivate patients, as in the case of a life-sized female bronze, as well as to sublimate the work of body training with the beauty of creative art.
I had been creating quite a few stone objects in three dimensions; only recently, with my bronzes, I had begun to venture into the “fourth”, expressing movement. I felt I was ready with this large piece. It was to be an invitation to exercise, to work out, to get healthy. The marble piece I had chosen, however, was so two-dimensional, having an even, generally uniform thickness.
How would I bring out the dimension of movement if there wasn’t even a third dimension? I knew it could be done. I needed to use every bit of my imagination, and every quality of the stone I could marshal to bring out the message of “Work Out With Me”; look for example at the prominent dark vein of the Veneto piece. This object was meant to rest on a generous recess built into a curving wall, beckoning…. .
“Work Out With Me” was on loan for over a year to a successful internist group practice in Germany.
