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Linda Phillips

STANDING BY HIS WORK, Craig Phillips created this magnificent life-sized elk sculpture through the age-old process called lost wax casting, which allows bronze, which expands slightly before setting, to fill in the finest details on a sculpted object. Phillips melted large slabs of oil-based wax, which molds much like clay, onto a specially built frame supported by the two large poles under the elk's midsection. The elk took more than eight months to complete.