5. Monument to a Missing Island

At this point I was still thinking of the work as standing horizontally, with the base on the ground and the "image" of the explosion rising from it.

I began building a model of the sculpture from basswood and at a certain stage I decided that to highlight the difference between "sculpture" and "base" I would paint everything above the "base" white—the natural wood representing the river and the white area, the explosion.

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