SCULPTURE OF THE WEEK

I'd like to share with you the story behind my sculpture, "Above it All". The actor Rene Auberjonois (“Constable Odo” from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) owned land with me in the woods of New Hampshire. He used to draw happy little figures that, later on, inspired me to draw a girl dancing on top of a blue sphere. Here she is in bronze, above the earth, in a universe all her own.

The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-Daro

The 'dancing girl,' a 10.8 centimeter high bronze statuette, sculpted using the lost wax method around 2500 BC, and excavated in 1926 from a house in the ancient city of Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan, is one of the earliest cast bronze statues ever discovered. 

It is fascinating to see the beautiful and delicate craftsmanship that went into this ancient sculpture. This same technique (lost wax method), used 4,500 years ago, is what bronze sculptors, including myself, still use today.

Discovered in 1926 in a broken down house in Mohenjo-Daro, she now resides at the National Museum in Delhi. 

To find out more about the history of bronze sculpture and the lost wax method, visit my website:

http://ninawinters.com/bronze-casting.php