Specs

• Value: €7.500
• Material: Recycled Cardboard (recovered from the streets of Bologna)
• Dimension: 150cm x 100cm x 80cm
• Months: 3
• Hours: 90
• Title: You Are Free (full)
• Description: A life-size cardboard statue of a nude woman sitting, leaning back on arms
  to the side, with legs crossed. The legs transition into fragments and the hair
  is wild and tangled by the wind.
• Series: Second Chances (#11)

About the Piece

This was the eleventh piece created by Chad in his studio at in Bologna during the summer of 2022. It is a larger version of the smaller sculpture by the same name created as a gift for the model. Like all the material for this project, every cardboard box recovered from the streets of Bologna has a story and a previous life — abandoned and given a second chance (Learn more about the philosophy of the material for this series). Like the portrait "The Wind that Loved the Girl", the subject of this sculpture is actually the wind itself, and the girl is the attention of his affection.

Chad chose to utilize torn cardboard pieces that were rough and textured, which gives this piece a much more unfinished look. But still in this messiness there is enough detail in the right places to provide the imagination enough context to fill in the details. This is intended to mimic the loose but compelling style of oil painters such as John Singer Sargent.

Chad continued to use razor cutting as a way to sculpt the most important features in a traditional sculpting style. This sculpture incorporates the important element of "motion" through the representation of the hair. The material remains an important part of all these pieces, so it's important that many parts remain "unfinished" to give the viewer the moment of surprise when they realize what the sculpture is made of and let them guess the meaning behind it.