and so I gave him tools and showed
him what they would do with the clay.
I kept it conversational.
"When he came the next time I put
him to work and he did very well."
A New Outlet
"Sculpting is so much fun," says
Borovoy. "It's added a new dimension
and meaning to my life ... it's given
me new short-term goals. A year ago, I
had open-heart surgery for the second
time and now I am partially retired
because of that. Sculpting has given
me another area for fulfillment.
I've also started an art library and
my wife and I have begun to look at art
together and collect it. I joined the
BBAC [Birmingham Bloomfield Art
Center] and have been working in
stones now. Clay and stone are different
mediums. You learn techniques for each
one, not that I'm so proficient, but I'm
interested in education so I want to keep
learn* ... I look at Abe and want to
grow up and be just like him."
Zitomer moves a bit slowly nowt.
Surgery has sapped some of his energy,
making a walker a necessity "But I still
sculpt," he is quick to say, showing a vis-
itor three works in progress. "Watch
this," he says. Taking up a spray bottle,
he spritzes a partially completed figure
of a woman in prayer. As if by magic,
whorls of ocher come to life in the
alabaster's pale surface.
Gesturing to a power tool, he says,
"When I'm done, I'll polish her up
and she'll look just beautiful."
"I can still sculpt," he repeats. "I'll
be our there three, four hours. I can
pick up my hammer and chisel. When
I'm sculpting, somebody could come
in the house and take all the furniture
and I wouldn't know.
"A lot of time, you see something
in stone and you go ahead and bring
it forth. Sometimes you come to a
point where you're not satisfied and
sometimes you're satisfied but some-
thing still puzzles you. So you go on
to another piece for a while."
Pointing to an alabaster work,
Zitomer explains why the piece will
remain forever unfinished. At first
glance, the sculpture is familiar,
intertwined male and female figures.
But Zitomer put his own twist on
the theme in his piece called
"Triangle." Instead of the familiar
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