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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Jenna waits patiently
Now that I have my approval I will begin with the mold of Jenna. Once again this is not for the weak of heart! After all of the time spent creating this perfect sculpture I will need to now divide the sculpture up so that molds and waxes can be made. It is a process that I have done for so many years, it no longer bothers me, as it is just part of the process. The difficulty is that I don't get to look at her for a while. But, in a few weeks, when I go to the foundry to approve the metal and see her there, I will say, "there you are sweety, I missed you." I greet them all the same way. As a friend who has been a way for a while.
I took Russo, my now former apprentice, to the foundry to see how the sculpture that she has worked on is coming along, and to explain the foundry process with her. Then it was off to buy materials for the Jenna mold. Russo said if she wasn't going to go to Washington before her trip home to her country, she would come and help. That was sweet, but to be perfectly honest- I'm looking forward to more alone time with Jenna, and since the foundry does not need the molds until Monday, my pace can slow down considerably!
On with the bronze process of Professor Richard Hathaway
The next step, after the creating the waxes, is the gating of the waxes. Pour cups and wax sprues are added to the waxes that came from the Dick Hathaway molds. These are then dipped into a mixture coating the waxes both inside and out. Each of the many pieces will need to be dipped creating a ceramic shell. I went to the foundry today to take some pictures and video of the dip process for the next video that I will be creating about this sculpture. This part of the bronze process will take the foundry about a week.
We have approval, now on to being created in bronze!
Baby Jenna has bee approved. Mom said "I can't even imagine what you've been through trying to get this done in the time frame, it's amazing. Can I just say again how beautiful she is, thanks for all of the tweaking and your patience on the whole process, she just came together perfectly,absolutely love it. can't wait to have her home."
Keep watching to see her created into a beautiful bronze sculpture!
Some of you may not know that my constant studio companion and friend is a turtle. This is Tilly. Who if you have been following this blog log enough came to my studio when I built it. (See June 2005 post).
The edge of the pond is still not complete, one of those projects I just can't seem to get to. But she wanders about the 14 foot stream and two waterfalls to her content. Here she is at the lower pond, which is just about 7 feet from the edge of my studio. And she is with her tiny baby. Notice the resemblance?
She has had several clutches of eggs, but only this one baby has survived, plus another two that I gave away to a ponder friend. This little thing has survived amongst big dogs, and bullfrogs ( wow that rhymes) I don't get to see him/her often as it scampers under the surface as soon as it sees movement. Probably the reason it has stayed alive so long. Anyway... I receive a great deal of relaxation and inspiration from this pond.
As I was taking the trip upstairs and downstairs to take pictures in the studio of Jenna, and upstairs to upload them to the internet I saw this little scene. It is amazing how much they look like each other.
Jenna now has hair, her hands are attached I am moving toward those toes. Doing a bit of work on the tights, and about to do the last two things, attach her other wings, and finish the butterfly. Symbolic I suppose. I was not well last night and went to bed early. It put me back a bit, but I expect to have final photographs in a few hours. It would be lovely if I could have an approval from the parents this evening then I could spend the evening preparing Jenna for the mold process. The rubber had been ordered and come in on Wednesday.
Most of the time, while I am sculpting on Jenna she is on a large lazy Susan. Several times when I try to take pictures of her she just starts turning around. I think it is Jenna's game that she is playing with me. Trying to take the butterfly for a ride.
I still am not securing the two hands, they are taken off a bunch of times each day, to get to the face or the dress. The photographs of Jenna against the wall were taken last night while Russo was here. ( thanks again Russo for all of your help, I have enjoyed having you as an apprentice) I put all of the pieces together so we both could shoot some pictures, some for Russo, and others for this blog.
You may notice there are real ribbons and color full pins on Jeanna's dress. The ribbons are just placement. As I said before they would never hold up through the mold process so after I receive an approval from her mom I'll take them off, adding them at the wax stage. The pins are part of the lace design. OF course they look different colors in this clay, but when Jenna is turned into a bronze sculpture they will look like little beads, just like the ones on Jenna's dress. WE cut out little leaf and flower patterns out of clay and once attached to the dress I put a texture in them.
The tights also have a pattern in them. I love this. This afternoon I went back to Jenna's face and revised a few things. Jenna's mom requested I send some pictures of her face looking right at her. To do this I had to remove the butterfly hand. But these are the newest pictures of Jenna's face with some of my own revisions.
Sorry that the sculpture looks so shiny, it does make it difficult to shoot good pictures. The shininess is because I use hot Vaseline to smooth out the sculpture. I recently ran out of Vaseline and ran to the store to get some. The first time I used it I noticed it had a baby powder scent to it. One more thing to remind me of the specialness of this project. Russo and I agreed that it does smell wonderful.
Tonight I'll go over everything one more time, add the rest of Jenna's hair, smooth the dress out where it needs to be, fix the right arm, the only thing left to sculpt, attach the other wing, and sign the sculpture. Final pictures for approval will be sent to the family tomorrow.
Church and a celebration of my son's 19th birthday was a priority. We took him out to lunch and to see Prince Caspian. Then it was back home to work on Jenna. Russo has not been in and did not get to see her until today. She was so surprised and I think I saw tears in her eyes when I showed her the videos, the dress, the toys. I wanted her to love her as much as I do before she began to work on her. Russo helped a great deal, smoothing things out and putting texture in, as well as helping me with the leaves and flowers of Jenna's lace. I have held those tiny hands and tiny wings for two days now. They are done. Just one last look at the face to see if their are any revisions. All elements are ready to put together. Between this evening and to marrow I will have the time that I need to complete her.
I wish I would have brought the camera back up to the office to post the pictures that I took of Jenna, but I will try to post in the morning and then in the afternoon.
Goodbye to another apprentice I have loved working with Russo and will miss her when she goes back to her country. Today was her last day in the studio, though I may try to pick her up next week to see how Dick is coming at the foundry.
What I thought I would work on, I have not. I have been jumping around on the sculpture so much it is hard to discuss what I have done, Pulled the left arm back further, worked on the skull, began to indicate hair, love that left ear, back to the hands, changed the back, more poof in sleeves, fixed trim on sleeve, changed trim around the neck, sculpted left arm with left hand attached, about to take left hand off to indicate those tiny little nails. Watched her birthday video over and over, fast forward through picnic, back again. Start video, pause.
All while watching Charlie and the chocolate factory with Jenna.
She is seated up right again, but I am sure she will want to go back and do splits in the air before the night is out.
Apprentice did not show up today, and sunday we are going to celebrate my sons 19th birthday, so I know I will have to clean the clay out of my nails for part of the day. There is also church. I can only hope that Russo can come in late and help. I'll post photographs later
Don't you love these air splits! If you notice in the photograph, I brought the accounting lap top downstairs to watch the video. I turned it on, and paused it where I wanted it to be, and then would work on Jenna.
UPSIDE DOWN! When sculpting, You have to work on areas that many people will never see. It is a good time to do this since her wings are almost ready to attach and after that, this pose would be impossible.
The delicate little hands have been cradled in my own large musculer sculpting hands for most of the day. It makes it much easier to work on them. The hands are roughed in and will be finished today, as the apprentice smooths other areas of her body, especially those legs. I'll put a type of texture on those tights when she is finished. The two of us will also work on her lace on her bodice. Two people working on this may only take a couple of hours. Once I feel confident about her legs, and tights I will sit her upright and begin the final details, but before attaching wings and hands I want to take a good look at her face one more time. This time with the help of the videos. I can already see some things that I will change a bit, the indentation over both sides of her upper lip, when she holds such a big smile, the position of the teeth, and those special ears.
One would think that the left side of ones body is the same as the right. NOT SO! A sculptor must study both sides and in fact when reference information is not available for both sides of the body and an artist uses one side reference and flips the image to show the missing side the results are never a likeness. I remember one person I sculpted has a left side of her face was at least 1" wider than the right. In her 70years she had never really noticed it. I did!
Jenna's left ear is very different than her right. I'll be comparing a lot with the videos. We are well on our way to finishing. I know Monday is a holiday, I doubt I'll be able to get my approval on Monday, so I'll shoot for approval by Tuesday. Molds will be made on Tuesday evening, unless changes need to be made and I'll push that to Wed and Thursday. Then Jenna will be off to the foundry for waxes!
The small dvd that Jenna's mom sent won't work in my laptop mac. I can see it on the mac in the office even on the accounting computer, but because my lap top mac kind of sucks in the dvd it won't work. So I am up in the office trying to figure out how to copy it. I want to play it while I am working down in the studio. I keep clicking the DVD trying this and that and get caught up in the watching the DVD.
I have had this thought for a while. Listen to the gurgles and mumblings of babies I would like to think that it is a sort of angel talk. Something that we somehow lose as we grow up and learn real taking. I love listening to Jenna's angel talk.
I keep stopping and observing, the roundness of her ears... Ah there is a perfect shot of her hand, I was working on her hand... look there is the smile. I have to copy this dvd. I love to watch her squeeze the air with her hands, something that she seems to do a lot. the tights are perfect. Now I know I will get the downstairs computer filled with clay while I pause, start and stop this dvd, but first a way to get it down there.
Yesterday I was at the foundry trying to take pictures of the gating up of the Dick Hathaway project as it goes through the bronze process, and at the manufacturer picking up God's Word sculpture, then it was off to the Ceramic supply store to replace tools that had broken and purchase new ones.
I lost almost an entire day of sculpting, but got back to it last night. My new apprentice Caroline worked on smoothing out Jenna's dress on Tuesday night and again last night, while I figured out how to create cherub wings. Took quite a long time for the one wing, on side, but now that I know what I am doing I am confident the other will go much more quickly. I'm not sure we got as much done as we could have as we were watching my favorite show while working, "so you think you can dance." I think Jenna liked it as well, as I am sure she would have loved to learn to dance, and she is probably dancing in heaven right now. Can't you hear her giggling, "look what I can make my legs do now!" I watched her move her hands and wrists in the video around and around in a circle, seemed similar to the expression I saw in those young kids dancing last night- the good dancers. I'll post some more pictures at the end of the day.
The details in the sculpture of Jenna are coming along. Jenna's mom sent her birthday dress and I had quite a few pictures of her in this dress. I could not of course show the fine netting material that is over the satin part of the dress, instead I put a pattern in the dress. Showed the little satin material hem peeking out from underneath.I still have a long way to go, the lace in the bodice, and my apprentice will come in and smooth areas that I have sculpted. The bows shown on the dress will be added later in the wax, as they would never make it through the mold process, same with the little roses. I'm attaching the photographs, ( as I did this I accidentally pressed the start button to Jenna's movies and can hear Jenna talking in the background serenading me).
The sculpted dress has been shortened a bit to accommodate the showing of those dancing legs and her tights. I have changed many things from the foam sculpture. The hand positions are still being worked on and for the most part are in the way when I sculpt so I will attach them permanently later. Jenna's feet are so expressive and I found a way that she bends her toe backwards in excitement. It accentuates the rolls in her tights. I have worked a bit on this with her right foot and like it. But my attention is really on the dress for right now, then I will move to her legs and arms, and back to her face and head. I think she would really like to have her hair now and feel compelled to put it in. Today is Thursday, I feel I will be able to ask for approval by Monday of next week. If I keep going at the pace that I am.
Jenna and I continue to spend quality time together. The photographs provided by her mom have been put in sleeves to protect them from the bits of clay that go on, and come off of the sculpture. Add, take away, add take away. It is a constant process. The photographs are everywhere. I am often searching for the perfect photograph to show me just what proportion I want.
Jenna's dress hangs from a hanger on the other side of the room. A constant reference.
Some changes. I moved her left arm back a bit and shortened the dress in the middle. I think with it short it ads to her smallness. She will be wearing tights, maybe I can show a diaper underneath. Still in the design stages. I'm working from the top down, still have to work on the back of her head and indicate some hair, what little she had. onto the right sleeve and arm and then the dress.
Working on Jeanna's face this morning I watched her morph from photograph to photograph, two teeth and then more. I thought about her teething and wondered how many teeth should show. Later I'll take a close up of Jenna to show the mom. In the end, and for now her mouth is open and shows most of her teeth on top. It is funny that many sculptors hate to sculpt open mouths. I am not sure why and some will say they don't look natural. They are hard to cast, but not impossible. I could see jenna no other way. It seemed like she had to have that smile.
It will be a few days before I am ready to call or e mail Jenna's mom and say, "approve this." It is still a process. I state that just in case Jenna's mom is reading this blog and watching the process, and if she is I must say, Can't you hear the giggles, we are having a great time together.
oh yes,
hubby came into the studio a bit ago. I said, "I'll be right back," I had to run to the house for something. He replied, "no problem, I'll keep an eye on the baby."
I Need to order some foam pieces that I can carve to show her headstone. So that we can get a feel as to how that will work with her, but first, back to playing with Jenna.
Let it be known that on May 19, 2008 at around 2:45 pm I found Jenna!
There is a point that I try to reach with each of my sculptures. No matter what the subject, if it is from life or a sculpture created in memory of someone. The point I am speaking of is their appearance. The moment that I have coaxed them from the clay.
I have her. The ahhha. My husband has come into the studio at least 3 times in the last 24 hours and said , "it is looking like her." But there is a moment for me, the moment was with her chin, I added a little clay and then I looked at her and she looked right back at me. TAAADAAA! The moment never ceases to amaze me.
This element is very important to me, even if there are changes that occur after this moment it does not matter. It is a settling within myself the connection between subject and artist has been formed.
Another thing. When sculpting you can get so involved with the details, lets use for example an eye. But unless you can do both, be involved with the details and often pull yourself back and see the entire picture then you may work a long time on something only to find that it really never went with the entire picture. I have been thinking a lot about that. Somehow there is a metaphor for life there. The small stuff, the details are important, but work on them as you keep looking at the entire picture. Don't lose site of the entire picture. The details make more sense that way.
I'll try to post some pictures soon.
This presentation always happens with the face. I have worked diligently for the last 24 hours with Jenna's head in my lap, turning her every direction. Here is another metaphor for life. If you are not sure how things should be, turn them upside down and take a look, you often will see things that don't fit or are out of place. All it is takes looking at things from another direction.
I have reattached Jenna and can't wait to begin pulling her all together. Got to go, its very exciting.
It came to my attention that Jenna will be created in 90 days. Not that I counted on a calendar but that along with starting the Jenna sculpture and needing to have them both by the trip to Vermont on August 24th. I am also doing a new sunday school class with my sunday school. For those of you who don't know I am a teacher, or what I call facilitator of a senior citizen Sunday school Class at my church. I say Facilitator, because most those people have a tremendous amount of wisdom and I don't feel I can easily say, "I am your teacher."
anyway, we are going to read the bible, yes the entire bible in 90 days! Cover to cover. It was suggested by our pastor and is really a program that was developed and that we are using. I have read the entire bible, but never cover to cover like this. So As I travel to Vermont with the Jenna, and Dick Hathaway sculptures I will have this other accomplishment as well.
The Jenna sculpture and I played all day, or should I say most of the day. I picked up the Jenna foam armature from the supplier. I will go into this process in more detail at a later date, as I have written about it recently in a national magazine and cannot write about it for a few months. ONWARD
The foam had to be modified look more like Jenna and that meant new tools! The foam makes a mess, but I kept my air tank on to blow myself off, and the vacuum nearby. I cover the foam with hot wax to seal it and keep the grit from getting into the foam. Then it is covered with hot clay that is melted in crockpots. I worked until about 10:00pm trying to get the basic shape of Jenna and added a fake butterfly just to get the "feel" of her. Before I ended I started on her face, that is the element that "captures" her. Jenna's mom sent wonderful material to work from. This is so important when doing posthumous sculpture and it is vital when you are doing children. They change so quickly that often parents send reference material that is from several different ages and makes my job very hard. Not so with Jeanna. I have video, photographs and much more. I am sorry I have not posted the photograph of her face. I'll post more later in the day. Once again I am aiming for an approval on this sculpture by next week. I need to do that in order to bring her to the northeast with the Dick Hathaway sculpture.
There are two ways to study my posthumous subjects. The first is necessary. Proportions, proportions, proportions. The second is emotionally. there are two distinct ways and sometimes, yes they do crossover. What can you pick up from a photograph or video? Much more than you would think. That is what I discovered when suffering from depression after working on a commission of a suicide. Turns out there is some science behind what happens. Ah one day I'll have this book published and be able to share, and I also want to do a video on that process. It is fascinating!
I have the new foam armature for the Jenna sculpture and when arriving from Austin with it I was thrilled to find a package from Jenna's mom. It contained video of Jenna. It is so great that this is available to me. It enhances the connection between Jenna and I and gives me such great resources to work with. Saturday is my play day. Just Jenna and I. I can hardly stand the anticipation. If I had not planned on attending a Taize prayer/worship service tonight with my apprentice Russo, I would be home getting to work on Jeanna. I put in the dvd to take a quick look and could hardly stand it. In the morning, yes that is it, in the morning. I'm coming Jenna!
For the next two weeks I will be working on the new sculpture of Jenna, please see previous posts. Tomorrow we will be picking up her armature in Austin. Then this weekend begins the process. Though I welcome the apprentices help. I think I will ask everyone not to come to the studio in the next few days, so that Jenna and I can have some quality time. I expect by this time next week she will be close to being finished. Yes, this is a quick turn around for a life-size sculpture.
The photographs are xeroxed and enlarged I have Jenna music sent by her parents I have her beautiful dress and some of her toys.
Jenna's grave site service was last weekend. It is appropriate that we should begin to bring that angel to life through this work of art. A creative endeavor made possible through the love and assistance of her family. The play date is set!
I loved the picture that the mom had given to me of Charlie and his dog. I was thrilled to create a sculpture that resembled the photograph. It is a companion piece to the sculpture that I created of his brother David.
The sculpture of the professor is half way through the bronze process.
The sculpture of Professor Hathaway created for the State of Vermont is half way through the bronze process. I had posted about the molds, here are the waxes that were poured from those molds. They are cleaned up in my studio and sent back to the foundry for the next step in the process of creating a life-size bronze sculpture wit the lost wax method of bronze casting.
Today I had a virtual birthday party for my daughter.
Yes indeed. I had a virtual party. You see it is monther's day and my daughter Christina Diliberto's 23rd birthday. Unable to be together, with her in Tulsa and me in Houston I posted a virtual birthday party on her face book. I posted several photographs of her as a baby and commented and tagged them. If your on facebook here is a link. Then I noted that when she was born there was a wonderful big band station here in Houston. I called them and told them that she came in time to make me a mother on mothers day. I asked them to dedicate a song to my new baby. They picked "Aint she sweet" I found this wonderful video of the Big chicken chorus singing the song and posted that on face book as well. I laughed so hard.
At this VIRTUAL BIRTHDAY PARTY we had henna painting butt sketches. a margarita machine petting zoo serenade by the big chicken chorus stuffed mushrooms, baked ziti, and salad then Cirque du Soleil performed! What a great ongoing virtual birthday party! ( PS, pretty easy on the budget as well.)
The box of persona effects is set out on a black piece of velvet. My chair is pulled up to the table as I ponder the photographs. The chair is my own daughter Fisher Price wooden high chair, something that she used as a child and I continue to use in my studio. It is my gauge for weight gain and width of my own hips. "I wonder what Jenna's high chair was like?" I wonder a lot about Jenna. The moment I sit down at the table and pick up the items, the emotions begin.
I put in the CD sent by Jenna's mom, songs that she played to, and songs that will be played at her service. " An now the time is near...” My Way is playing on the CD and as I look at the pictures of the family their happiness. Then the gateway is open between the connections I have with Jenna's mom and the tears and sadness begin to flow. My heart aches to hold a child I have never known.
I have gone through this process long enough to know this is a very strange occurrence, picking up the feelings of my client that are opened up because of our emotional bonds (see former posts).
It has taken me years to learn how to control the emotions, during the process of sculpting posthumous sculpture, as they feel they are mine, they could quickly overwhelm me. "Not mine." I hear myself whispering deep inside, but just enough.
I feel as if I am testing the waters, allowing myself to touch and be touched, but only enough. Learning to say " not mine" has given me sanity in this process. First I must recognize the feelings as not my own. Some people term this "Psychic empathy". I don't know what to call it, I just know it is there, and I now know how to work through it. I have written a lot about this in the book. I really do need to find a publisher for that book.
29.9 inches long. This is a measurement that has been given to me by Jenna’s mom. How tall is she while she is sitting? I look for pictures of her standing up, or being held standing up and then for her sitting down. My husband, also an artist comes down as I show him my sewing tape with 29.9" marked off. We examine the dress, my brain switches gears and I am in another part, no emotion, just proportion, compare, compare, compare. We have decided 19 inches while seated. With this number the foam armature and structure can be built. I expect to be sculpting Jenna by Monday or Tuesday. The armature will be here and the Richard Hathaway waxes will be at the foundry. I can't wait to play with Jenna.
While looking through Jenna’s box of personal effects the foster dog ( we foster animals from time to time, Sam short of Samantha is a big black lab puppy). Anyway… Sam came in wanting to smell Jenna’s clothes. I am so enthralled in the box, I hardly notice her at first. Then picking up a small moo can, an item from Jenna’s box, I turn it over and hear the sound of a small cow. Sam cocks her head. If Jenna were here she would be laughing so hard at Sam’s face. Again. I hear myself saying, as Sam turns her head again. We repeat this over and over and I feel I can hear Jenna giggling.
Soon I order Sam out of the studio. The game was fun, but I need to have time alone with these items. I am very possessive and don’t want anyone to touch the items until I have had my time with them, not even a very interested dog nose. I know that sounds strange. I’m not sure why I do this. I remember being short with a fellow student who tried to reach into the box of Dick Hathaway’s personal effects. It is very strange indeed.
Jenna’s box of personal effects arrived the other day.
I could not wait for the time to open it. Open a box, which was packed in tears and memories of a special person who touched so many in her 14 months on earth. It is important that I carve out just the correct time to go through this ritual. I have opened many boxes before, in creating posthumous sculpture. IT is a ceremonial event, which consists of the same things but with drastically different “feelings”. It is the feelings that I am looking for, the feelings attached to each article by the loved one, the feelings of the person that belonged to these items. The feeling and essence of the individual that I will be desperately trying to coax into the clay sculpture.
I unwrapped the dress and stocking that were carefully wrapped in paper and tucked into a plastic bag marked "Jenna's dress" and thought about how unusual it was that my 3D model baby is wearing similar dress. Marveled at how very tiny this dress looks in person, much smaller than in the online photographs that I have seen. “Oh look at these stockings!” I declare. With there little pattern, I could almost see her little chubby legs filling out the tights. “Toes or tights”, I wonder. Tights are easier to sculpt than toes, but those toes…
Then I surprise myself as I perform a ritual that I have done with a piece of clothing from Jenna’s box, a ritual that I have done with each box of each subject that has come before Jenna—Patsy, Lucas, Jeanine and others. I raised her tights to my face and breathed in the smell. “ Is this Jenna, her home smell, or laundry detergent,” I wonder?
To the sculpture of Jenna. I am trying to bring the Jenna Sculpture to Main when I bring the Dick Hathaway sculpture to Vermont. That is at the end of August. The foundry reports I must have Jeanna in mold for the bronze casting by the end of this month- May. It takes a while to go through the bronze process. I have ulterior motives in that I would really like Jenna's mom to have her before Jenna's birthday. That way they can celebrate, maybe have an unveiling at the gravesite.
This sculpture will be done a bit differently using new technology.. stay tuned.
Often after working on such a large project as the sculpture of Dick Hathaway, and the creating of the mold, the studio is a mess. Prior to that the studio is filled with sculpture, clay stained floors, the way a sculpture studio should be, I suppose.
My attire for the last few weeks has been grubby clothes that get even grubbier with putting the rubber and plaster on the molds.
NOT TODAY! The molds are done, the floor is clean (with a great deal of thanks to my apprentice Russo ). Today I put on pressed clothes. Of course I am working in the office instead of the studio. I am thrilled that the large studio floor is free from obstruction. What does that mean? I CAN DANCE! Literally! I like to dance for exercise, turn on the tunes and start moving. Sometimes my husband joins me and we will practice our waltz, jitterbug, two step, fox trot or cha cha.
The Jenna sculpture needs to be in clay by next week. A quick turn around, but she is little and will take only a small amount of space. So... I HAVE PRESSED CLOTHES ON! A WHITE SHIRT, AND NOW I CAN DANCE!
A new online article about using the computer program Poser to create presentations and reference for sculpture. The May issue of the online Magazine Best of Artists and Artisans online blog.
Here is the pose that we decided on for Jenna. Yesterday my husband helped me to create a 3D butterfly for her finger. I'm glad he did as it prompted me to take her hand out a bit further from her face. I'm going to be creating Jenna a bit differently than any other sculpture that I have done before, stay tuned for the details.
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