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A Soldier’s Journey is a sculpture based on the myth of the hero’s journey, following a recurring American soldier who embarks on a quest, wins victory in an epic struggle, and returns home changed by peril, while also representing the American experience of World War I. Created by Sabin Howard with architect Joseph Weishaar as part of the redesign of Pershing Park as a National World War I memorial, the work developed from Howard’s study of thousands of war photographs and his staging of actors and models in moving scenes that he captured in more than 12,000 photos. He selected and assembled these images into evolving tableaus, culminating in a six-foot-long scale model, or maquette, of the proposed sculpture. After approval, every figure was re-shot in a rig holding 160 high-speed digital cameras, and with Pangolin Editions foundry and Steve Russell Studios, Howard produced 3-D computer images from terabytes of digital data. Pangolin created full-scale polyurethane versions that served as armatures, a process taking about 15 months instead of six years by traditional methods, after which Howard applied clay and sculpted the figures. The sculpture is cast in bronze in four sections, which are to be reassembled and installed in 2024.
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