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It was 1971 at Lajes AFB, Azores. I was very fortunate and proud to serve especially at that time as a naturalized citized from Austria. I had just been promoted to major and Mary and I attended the welcoming event for the new base commander General Johnson. I would...

I have sculpted off and on since high school. I never had any formal training in sculpting and believe it is just a DNA thing passed down from my Grandfather to my Father and to me. I recently wrote two essays on sculpting hands. I intended to include one of my...

To my knowledge, I am the only sculptor who incorporates a genuine article in his sculpting. My sculpture I named :Air on the G String" is one such scuspute. that is a real violin with Bronze hands “playing” it. I came up with the idea by realizing that casting the...

I recently got on a hand sculpting kick. I chose that subject because hands are notoriously difficult to draw and even more so to sculpt. They are complex and have a lot of little details that need to be included like fingernails, muscles that move the fingers, the...

Clown Putin plying chess with Trump is an AI generated picture Putin believes he needs to reinvent the old USSR. He has said as much. He considers himself the successor to Peter the Great when Russia was a true empire. Putin made this statement on April 25, 2005,...

Twin Lakes: Lago Azul and Lago Verde, Sao Miguel, Azores The last ice age started about 115,000 years ago. The exact reasons for the cooling are still debated but likely are related to the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth due to a wobble in the Earth's tilt, the...