After interviewing my partner, Francesca, and creating the bust, I wanted to transform my piece of wood into a profile-like image of a face. I accentuated the most prominent and geometric facial features, such as the chin, nose, and forehead to have the viewer instinctively know what the pedestal was modeled after. I decided to keep with the geometric theme, but chose a more abstract path when creating the “hair” of the pedestal to give the piece more interesting negative and positive shapes. I wanted the pedestal to help the viewer read the bust in greater detail, tracing it’s shapes with their eyes as they would do for the structured lines of the pedestal.