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These works comprise a single body of art that Scott F. Hall, an art and design professor, has been creating from 1989 to the present. Hall initially developed this style by drawing large, intertwined figures within drawings up to 3.5 meters wide. The drawn figures were discovered through an automatic process of additive and subtractive mark making that often induced pareidolia, as in 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 soon began creating equivalent 3-D imagery focused on a single clay-modeled figure presented in a particular pose, usually in half-bodied form depicted only from the pelvis upward. Throughout this three-decade-long series, Hall's sculptures show figures in a solitary and bound condition, directly referencing Existentialist philosophy of interest to him during the late '80s, a time of Postmodern disillusionment. Hall's philosophical outlook has since moved beyond Existentialism and Postmodernism, but the stark and quietly tortured look of his figures persists for consistency. Every sculpture in this series and the entire series itself remains untitled, fitting with the surrogate nature of Hall's figures. Each Hall sculpture begins as a small-scale white oil-based clay model, 12 to 20 centimeters tall. Modeling is typically done entirely with fingers, while composition of poses occurs during study phases prior to actual sculpting. The works produced exhibit high realism in an impressionist sense, inviting each viewer to interpret the sculptures 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 them as markers of process. Several early pieces were molded in silicone and cast in wax, plaster, or resin. The first piece remains a one-of-a-kind lost wax bronze, still in the artist's collection. Contact email: Scott.Hall@ucf.edu Biography: https://svad.cah.ucf.edu/faculty-staff/?id=92