ScottFHallSculpture003

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These pieces comprise one body of work that art and design professor Scott F. Hall has been creating from 1989 to present. Hall invented this style initially by developing large, entwined spans of figures within drawings which were up to 3.5 meters wide. The drawn figures were discovered through an automatic process of additive and subtractive mark making which induced pareidolia (visions conjured from the amorphous field, as in cloud reading). Once noticed in the field, each figure could be elaborated upon to more fully bring it into view. Being an undergraduate sculpture major at that early time, Hall began creating equivalent 3-D imagery focused on single clay-modeled figures presented in particular poses, usually in half-bodied form (depicted only from the pelvis upward). Throughout this three-decades-long series, Hall's sculptures show figures in solitary and bound conditions: this depiction refers directly to Existentialist philosophy which was of focal interest to him in the late '80s during the Postmodern disillusionment era. Though by now Hall's philosophical outlook has moved well beyond Existentialism and Postmodernism, the stark and quietly tortured look of his figures persists for consistency. Every sculpture in this series remains untitled, which is appropriately in-sync with the surrogate nature of Hall's figures. In each case, a Hall sculpture begins in white oil-based clay on small scales, the height of each figure ranging about 12 to 20 centimeters. Modeling is usually done entirely with fingers, and composition of poses (i.e., observation of persons set into poses) happens only during study phases; these occur prior to actual sculpting of clay. Hall sculpts each figure quickly and from memory, producing works that exhibit high realism in an impressionist sense: each viewer is led to cloud read Hall's sculptures for themselves. Following the act of sculpting, each clay figure is turntable-scanned, cleaned of stray pixels, and converted to STL files. If some artifacts of digital processing persist (i.e., small areas of faceting), Hall accepts these as markers of process. Several of Hall's earliest pieces were molded in silicone and cast in wax, plaster, or resin. The very first piece exists as a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze and remains in the artist's collection. Contact e-mail: Scott.Hall@ucf.edu Biography: https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92