46 TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2017 In It’s My Fish, Jim expressed the emotion he felt when his son caught a fish and a bird threatened to take it for its own. He recently has been working on a new series he calls “Expression,” which is based upon the ballet. By using live ballerinas as his models, he captures them at various points of time during their movements. Jim says he almost feels as if he is sculpting a butterfly in flight, as he wants to be able to reproduce not only their bodies, but also their grace. His work often actually catches his subjects in flight at a moment in time that lasts but a second. Jim also has created abstract pieces based on items of nature, such as shell fragments, waves and even stones. �� He wanted to practice the lost wax process.
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