Donald Gialanella - Metal Sculpture

This is the first in a series of life scale human pieces that pay homage to August Rodin’s figurative bronzes, most notably his “Walking Man”.   Using a technique I developed that allows the freedom to add and subtract, I’m able to create a figurative piece with correct anatomical proportions, made of abstract elements.  I tried to fashion a realistic dimensional representation using a random yet subtly organized visual vocabulary.  I work like a bird building a nest, knowing intuitively where to insert the next bit.