Thanks for that link Bill D, and a very interesting quote from Heinlein there! But one that I profoundly disagree with.

Rodan does not compell the viewer to see the beauty in the sitter that 'she used to be when once young', he compels the viewer to pariticipate in the beauty that he personally percieves in the aged-flesh which sits sagging and bent before, him exactly as she is, right now.

When I look at an old oak tree, and am captivated by it's bug-ridden crevices, I am not in some abstract way appreciating the fine green sapling that it once was.

Rodan (and sculpture in general IMHO) is about nothing if not about the sensually and palpably immediate *here and now*.

Just an opinion, cheers again.