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.
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He wanted to
practice the lost
wax process.