Little Worries

Artist Mark Yale Harris' bronze bear has a wonderfully warm personality. Celebrating the joys of life, the pleasures of contentment and the humor in being foolish, No Worries serves as a reminder that not everything is serious. It is about happiness, about child-like playfulness and about being warm and cuddly.

This bronze work began with conceptual visualization, multiple sketches and a clay model preceding sculpting in stone. The stone sculpture is the original work that is then cast in bronze. Using proficiency with tools and innate sense of what necessitates broad strokes vs. economy of movement, the figure emerges from the stone. It is cast in bronze using a 6,000-year-old tradition called the Lost Wax Method.