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These pieces make up a single body of work that art and design professor Scott F. Hall has been creating since 1989 to the present day. Hall invented this style by developing large, entwined spans of figures within drawings which were as wide as 3.5 meters. The drawn figures emerged through an automatic process of additive and subtractive mark making that induced pareidolia (visions conjured from the amorphous field). Once noticed in the field, each figure could be elaborated upon to bring it into full view. As a sculpture major at the time, Hall began creating equivalent 3-D imagery focused on single clay-modeled figures presented in particular poses, usually in half-bodied form. Throughout this three-decade-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 during the late '80s. Although Hall's philosophical outlook has moved beyond Existentialism and Postmodernism, his figures' stark and quietly tortured look persists for consistency. Every sculpture in this series remains untitled, in-sync with the surrogate nature of Hall's figures. A Hall sculpture begins as white oil-based clay on a small scale, with each figure ranging 12 to 20 centimeters tall. Modeling is usually done entirely with the fingers. Composition of poses occurs during study phases prior to actual sculpting. Ultimately, Hall sculpts each figure quickly from memory. The works exhibit high realism in an impressionist sense: each viewer is led to cloud read each sculpture for himself/herself. Following sculpting, each clay figure is turntable-scanned, cleaned, and converted to STL file. If digital processing artifacts persist (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 first piece exists as a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze and remains in the artist's collection. Contact Scott F. Hall at Scott.Hall@ucf.edu for more information. Visit his biography at https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92