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Sculpture students retreat from classroom to create scale project Armed with mudsticks, garden shovels and slightly filthy fingers, six College sculpture students recently spent three days getting back to earth by depicting the origins of thier craft. Early man translated his history into relief or engraved forms. These students won’t be fortunate enough to have their work en shrined. “It has to come down sometime,” said Les Tipton, in structor. “This is largely an experimental project.” The background of clay and sandy silt the students used was provided by Oregon City contractor Duane Lee. The site slowly modulated into five different projects that unified and became a single composition. Read from left to right, the untitled work begins with a sup posed historical bull. Swedish student Maruscka Silvia, who created the work, found it interesting, “The figures are so forge.” Following a visual line from the bull’s horn is thé most original and sensitive place. Tipton called it “Prehistoric Man’s Struggle with Destiny.” Creator of the work, Alan Fivian, had a more sim plistic title, “It’s A Guy Climbing A Wall.” This was Fivian’s first try at such a large scale project. His in terest in proportions helped promote the powerful aura the piece elicited. He modestly added, “This sure turned out better than I thought it would.” The third piece represents the work of an African people. Rigid and somewhat lifeless, the forms do retain much of the quality of the surface they were rendered in. Their facial features Story by Kelly Laughlin Photos by Duffy Coffman