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I often think about the connections between my art process and everyday life. Art work is simultaneously about higher forms of expression and physically making objects. I use computers to design my sculptures and 3D printers to handle the beginning stages of the physical object, then use my hands to finish the work. While this process is obviously contemporary, I’m aware that I’m continuing the human tradition of developing and using tools to amplify my labor. The specific focus of my current work continues the tradition of sculpting the human head. However, I am not attempting to continue any particular artistic heritage. These works are as much influenced by accidental splotches that look like human heads as bronzes by Matisse or Giacometti or marble carved by Brancusi. My Janus Jar piece uses a profile that I “revolved” in Rhino. I can’t remember if I made the association before or after using that command, but I see an obvious resemblance to Profilo continuo del Duce by Renato Bertelli, which, 93 years ago, similarly manipulates a human silhouette. Unlike that futurist sculpture, my work is not based on a real person and was not driven by an absurd and hateful ideology. By making work that insists on a connection with the everyday, I vehemently reject such beliefs.

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Hana Halper

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Hana Halper

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