just toolin' along...

I am excited about all my school projects I got going on right now. I will post them as I finish them though. Currently, I finished a bio on a sculptor for my Humanities class. Here is my paper and the picture I'm submitting with it:

The Peackeeper

 Humanities         Perry      Assignment--Sculpture                Assignment for week 3

Choose a sculptor and present a short biographical summary. Place direct material in quotation marks.  Anything you write / summarize can just be presented.  Be sure to list your source at the bottom.   Then write a commentary on one work of sculpture. See example on p. 2.

Bio:

Abbe Godwin (1950- present) currently lives in Colfax, NC. She was born in my hometown of Jacksonville, NC and was raised in Wilmington. She graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. Best known for her works in American war memorials, she was commissioned in 1986 to sculpt The Peacekeeper statue that stands at the Beirut Memorial outside the main gates of Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, NC.

Commentary on one work:

The Peacekeeper

I have a great emotional attachment to this bronze sculpture, not only because my dad is a Marine, but because this is a representative of the 241 Marines from my hometown sent on a peacekeeping mission that were killed in an attack in the early morning hours of October 23^rd, 1983 in Beirut, Lebanon. I was only eleven years old.

My friends and residents in the area of my hometown affectionately named this brave statue “George”. He stands at 6 foot 3 and was modeled after three volunteer Marines. The attention to detail is seen from the etching of the camouflage in his uniform to the detail in the M-16 he holds as well as the wedding ring he wears down to the dog tag attached to his boot laces. The casting was done in Long Island, NY and assembled on-site at the Beirut Memorial, which stands along Lejeune Boulevard. It was erected in 1988.