IMG_3889 (2) Bill Russell by AH
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- Rocknak is known as a woodcarver, but to make this statue, she left her usual medium for bronze.
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- Bill Russell Legacy Project
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- The artwork features a sculpture of Bill Russell in game action pose with 11 granite plinths representing the 11 championships he helped the Boston Celtics win …
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- Bill Russell Legacy Project
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- The sculpture of Mr. Russell represents Bill Russell the whole man.
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- Bill Russell Legacy Project
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- In the second phase of the project, Ann collaborated with teens from Roxbury and Somerville to codesign the sculptures of the children through a mentorship process.
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- Claiming that the process of sculpting the clay model for bronze casting “loosened me up a bit,” Rocknak explained that the possibility of an additive process enabled her to experiment.
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- “It wasn’t about me creating some sort of idiosyncratic expression of Poe—I wanted something that everybody could recognize and enjoy. So, I had to include the raven, but I had to do it in a way that was kind of different.”
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- Edgar Alllan Poe
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- “Poe Returning to Boston”
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- I also like to use a lot of line work—sort of a two-dimensional approach to the three-dimensional object—and that carried over to the clay as well.”
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- “Poe Returning to Boston”
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- Poe Returning to Boston
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- “Poe Returning to Boston”
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