Mother and Child in winter

10 inches tall, bronze upper body with white patina, alabaster lower body.
This is the first project I have completed for Spring 2007 semester. This stone was left over from the Tortuga Grande sculpture and I thought I should put it to use. The stone looked like it could be the skirt for a sculpture of a woman. I added a baby because my mother asked me to do another mother/child sculpture. The mother is shielding her child from the cold by keeping him wrapped in her shawl. I imagined her walking through the snow with her hair being blown by the wind. Hence, the sort of sad but determined look on her face.