John Sollenne
by Stanley Bleifeld
The fecund Mediterranean foundry environment made it easy to fall for sculpture, because the inspirational help from the many artisans, sculptors, and native Italian well-wishers nurtured my growing calling. Connecticut is beautiful, but at the time, “sculpture” there seemed a foreign word.
However, I got lucky. In a nearby Connecticut foundry, which then seemed to me to invent the casting process out of thin air, I found a young man of Italian origin, who spoke little English. He muttered under his breath about the foundry’s methods, which he viewed with considerable perplexity. |
