grace hopper

Grace Hopper was a naval officer and a pioneer of computer programming, leading to her iconic status in the computer science community. She was proud, funny and just plain brilliant. I watched a bunch of interviews of her as I prepared for this project to try to capture those characteristics in this piece.

Here is my process, from armature to bronze.

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My Role

I pretty much flew solo on this one but I, of course, passed my designs to a foundry for pouring. As for the overall project, my responsibilities were:

  • Project manager

  • Designer

  • Sculptor