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How sculpture reconnected me to myself
There was a time when the idea of starting sculpture did not even cross my mind. Yet, I will tell you how that experience allowed me to reconnect to myself.
Genesis.
The idea of sculpting came to me overnight, one evening of 2017. During a dinner, my friend Victoria showed me several sculptures that she had exhibited few days before. While I was observing them and touching them, I thought the practice seemed nice and that me too, I wished I could do that. Coincidence said that the next day, she had a practice session and she proposed me to come so that I could discover the activity. Why bothering to wait for an other time? Let’s do it!
So, on the day of the initiation, I arrived at the workshop, a kind of big shed formerly sheltering the firefighters of the city. There, I found my other friends of Belfort, Federica and Eleonora, and I met a dozen of regular sculpture enthusiasts.
After the usual presentations, I started a first work that I chose in browsing a folder with few models. I was not so inspired, but I found that the hedgehog was quite cute. The model was a simple sketch, but it was good enough to help me imagine the hedgehog that I wanted to shape. Then, I had to choose the material on which I wanted to work. I chose the clay.
