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These pieces form a single body of work that art and design professor Scott F. Hall has been creating since 1989 to the present. Hall first developed this style by making large, intertwined spans of figures within drawings, some up to 3.5 meters wide. The drawn figures emerged through an automatic process of additive and subtractive mark making that often induced pareidolia, or visions conjured from an amorphous field like cloud reading. Once noticed in the field, each figure could be elaborated upon to bring it into clearer view. As an undergraduate sculpture major at the time, Hall began creating equivalent 3-D imagery focused on a single clay-modeled figure presented in a particular pose, usually in half-bodied form from the pelvis upward. Throughout this three-decade-long series, Hall's sculptures depict figures in solitary and bound conditions, directly referencing Existentialist philosophy that was of great interest to him during the late '80s amidst Postmodern disillusionment. Though his philosophical outlook has moved beyond these ideas, the stark and quietly tortured look of his figures persists for consistency. Each sculpture begins with white oil-based clay on a small scale, with heights ranging from 12 to 20 centimeters. Hall models each figure entirely with his fingers, composing poses during study phases that occur before actual sculpting. The resulting works exhibit high realism in an impressionist sense, inviting viewers to interpret each sculpture for themselves. Following sculpting, each clay figure is turntable-scanned, cleaned of stray pixels, and converted to an STL file. If digital processing artifacts persist, Hall accepts these as markers of the process. Several of Hall's earliest pieces were molded in silicone and cast in wax, plaster, or resin. The first piece in this series exists as a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze, remaining in the artist's collection. Contact email: Scott.Hall@ucf.edu Biography: https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92