Mary

[Garth Herrick]

Dear Heidi,

Once again you have an exquisite sculpture just resonating with humanity, and brimming with appeal. I think this is a winner. Here is a Mary who seems to be pondering the implications and challenges she is to face in life. What can I say; I'm a Presbyterian (no focus upon Mary, or saints intervening in our liturgy) and I am moved! I love the first version's patina.

Just beautiful, poetic, and universally appealing (in any season)!

Garth

[Ngaire Winwood]

Heidi

You have done it again. Simply, a very stunning piece!

[Heidi Maiers]

Garth, thanks again for such eloquent words - and Ngaire, thank you too and especially for your comments on the Feat piece. You both leave me speachless.
I also grew up Presbyterian Garth, so I suppose this is just my interpretation as an outsider of what she might have been like.

Well, this will be the third and final casting for the show. It is ivory, but hard to get the color right in this photo.

[Elizabeth Schott]

Heidi,

I also grew up Presbyterian Garth, so I suppose this is just my interpretation as an outsider of what she might have been like.

I too kind of grew up this way, but I think she must look like all us moms, including Linda!

I really love this, but just to upset you I liked the patina you posted first the best! It just feels right and not "commercially casted" which the ivory can look like sometimes. But then it could be the JPEG image.

You are so talented, have we told you that yet?

Beth

[Marvin Mattelson]

Heidi,

I'm glad you took my suggestion because this is my favorite finish by far. It is much more elegant than the others.

I would equate the finish on a sculpture with the frame on a canvas. Sometimes a painting needs a complex frame to help "dress" it up and complete it in order to give it a certain presence. However at other times, the simplest of frames is all that's needed to set a painting off and let it shine on it's own merit.

The ivory finish is your simple frame. It allows the viewer the opportunity to be one with a beautiful and emotional piece of art. Less, in my experience, very often turns out to be much more.

[Heidi Maiers]

Thanks Beth - and you're probably right. I would bet that this is the expression I wear on my face when I think about my kids. Since they no longer live with me, I can't help but worry and wonder about them all the time.

Glad you like the ivory Marvin and that's true what you say. Sometimes I complicate things more than is neccessary. On the other hand, what appeals to one person may or may not appeal to another, so it's good that I am offering a variety of finishes on this piece.