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These pieces constitute a unified body of work that renowned art and design professor Scott F. Hall has been crafting since 1989 to the present day. Hall initially developed this distinctive style by creating large, intricately intertwined drawings of figures that measured up to 3.5 meters in width. The drawn figures emerged through an automatic process of additive and subtractive mark making, which induced pareidolia - a phenomenon where viewers perceive images within amorphous fields, much like cloud gazing. Once noticed, each figure could be further elaborated upon to bring it into sharper focus. As an undergraduate sculpture major at the time, Hall soon shifted his focus to creating equivalent 3D imagery centered on single clay-modeled figures presented in a particular pose, often depicted from the pelvis upward. Throughout this decades-long series, Hall's sculptures consistently feature solitary and bound figures, which directly reference Existentialist philosophy that was a key area of interest for him during the late 1980s amidst the Postmodern disillusionment era. Although Hall's philosophical outlook has since evolved beyond Existentialism and Postmodernism, his figures retain a stark, quietly tortured appearance, ensuring consistency. Every sculpture in this series and the entire collection remain untitled, mirroring the surrogate nature of Hall's figures. Each piece begins as a small-scale white oil-based clay model, typically around 12 to 20 centimeters tall, with modeling often done entirely by hand using fingers. Composition and pose observation occur only during study phases, preceding actual sculpting. Ultimately, Hall sculpts each figure quickly from memory, producing works that exhibit high realism in an impressionist sense - allowing viewers to interpret each sculpture for themselves. Following the sculpting process, each clay figure is turntable-scanned, cleaned of stray pixels, and converted to an STL file. If digital processing artifacts persist (small areas of faceting), Hall tends to accept them as markers of the creative process. Several of Hall's earliest pieces were molded in silicone and cast in wax, plaster, or resin. The very first piece in this series exists as a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze, remaining in the artist's collection. For further information, please contact Scott F. Hall at Scott.Hall@ucf.edu or visit his biography at https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92.