But they are heroic just the same,” said award-winning artist Marlene Hilton Moore. “I didn’t pick up a sailor at the canteen, I met him in high school.”Artist Hilton Moore said the monument quickly took on a special meaning for her. “I’ve made 30 figures to date and only three of those previous figures were women, so now I have six women,” she said. It’s a bit instinctive but it comes out of years of experience too,” Hilton Moore said. I always sculpt the face in clay,” Hilton Moore said, adding that the figure is then cast in bronze.

Source: thestar November 16, 2017 21:00 UTC