Robert E. Bricker

In my investigation of relief sculpting, I have explored ‘wrap-around’ relief sculpting on vessel forms; there is no Y-axis that frames the composition, and it is impossible to see the entire image all at once. Thus, the storylines of the relief unfold for the viewer over time, similar to literature and to theatre. I discovered what I refer to as ‘cylindrical composition’, with plot themes rising and diminishing as the vase is circumambulated, or rotated before the eye.