"Behind the Curtain" is another in my exploration into the human nude underneath drapery - or in this case, behind drapery. This is a female nude from behind from shoulders to thighs that appears to have backed up into a white curtain. It is a high relief style with the attention focused on the figurative side of the sculpture. The viewer's eye is drawn to
Ever since I witnessed some mortuary sculpture in one of Berlin, Germany’s oldest cemeteries years ago, I have been fascinated with how stone sculptors can depict the human form seemingly revealed under drapery. I’ve experimented with this subject by carving a