"Chance favours the prepared mind" (Old Scottish saying)
Around my 50th birthday the local college was doing some house cleaning and I rescued about 20 boxes of new guitar strings destined for the dump. Ok, now what? Well, better get a guitar to put them on! And so begins my wonderful journey with the guitar. Having bought a used guitar and now being in guitar mode, I then had the good fortune to see Harry Manx play at Hugh's Room in Toronto. His spellbinding mystical bluesy style had me hooked from the first note and I became a fan. After watching a DVD of him playing I noticed his hands were very expressive and had a lot of character and thought they would make a good study for a sculpture. Then I thought "why not the whole Harry"?
I contacted him through his agent and he agreed to pose for pictures at John Reeves's studio in Toronto. With the many images for reference, taken of all the angles I could manage, this sculpture is finally taking shape and getting closer to the point where a mould can be made and waxes cast for its completion in bronze. Harry had a chance to see it at the Summerfolk folk festival and seemed pleased with the way it was shaping up. The plan is to have a bronze finished and ready for an unveiling in Toronto at his concert at the Glenn Gould studio in Toronto March 3rd or 4th, 2010.
The wax is now finished and the process of making a mould to produce waxes for the bronze casting process is now underway.
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