This bronze sculpture captures Richard Hunt’s signature synthesis of organic and industrial subject matter; its dynamic, pointed, wave-like form extending upward and outward from a biomorphic landscape of hills and valleys. This form, like many of the sculptures Hunt creates, came about in part because of the realities of the material from which is was made, and in part because of the sense of beauty that Hunt is trying to express in his work. He doesn’t see these as natural forms exactly, but he says “they express natural tendencies,” like a gesture, a movement, or a process. Hunt searches for humanity in the abstract forms he develops, interacting with them while fashioning their every element with his own body. Hunt hits them with fire, slices into them, bends them, and pounds on them with a hammer atop an anvil until eventually their lines become graceful and soft. His dynamism becomes the dynamism in the work. Every flaw is nurtured until it becomes essential; each separate element is coaxed into becoming part of the unified whole.