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Welles works in a medium - marble carving -
that is part of an ancient tradition going back to the Greeks and continuing
through Michelangelo during the Renaissance. Though he is often assisted today
with modern tools, such as pneumatic or air hammers and diamond saws, the
carving techniques remain largely the same. |
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Each piece is one of a kind,
often carved with chisels over hundreds of hours, and hand-sanded and
polished. Welles
relishes, however, the physical labor involved in the creation, feeling that it
balances with the creativity required. |
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Some of his works are
apparently only tangentially related to the figure.
Biomorphic shapes, however, are suggestive of the human figure
or parts of it. |
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Other pieces fall more clearly
in the Classical tradition of idealized female beauty. |
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