Making the Sculpture
Stacie commissioned Steven Whyte — a sculptor classically trained in creating figurative bronze and portrait sculpture — to create a life-size sculpture of Josh and Brooke.
The process of creating the sculpture was complex and involved making preliminary wax casts. The finished result shows Josh at age 29 and Brooke at age 8. Though, in reality, they were 25 years apart, Josh passed at age 29, and Stacie commissioned the sculpture when Brooke was 8.
Josh’s figure sports a Boston Celtics jersey and hat; Brooke’s, a shirt with a heart on it. Father and daughter are embracing and looking into each other’s eyes, showing their eternal bond.
On the back of Josh’s figure reads this inscription:
We will be together again someday.
Love Mom
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A wax cast of Josh's head, from the front.
A wax cast of Josh's head, in profile.
A wax cast of Josh's head, flanked by the cast of his body.
A wax cast of Josh's back.
Brooke surveys a headless wax cast of herself.
Sculptor Steven Whyte contours the eyes on Brooke's wax cast, as the real Brooke poses for him.
A wax cast of Brooke's head.
Brooke poses for the back of the sculpture, while sculptor Steven Whyte takes a photo.
Sculptor Steven Whyte gathers more photo images of the real Brooke, next to the full wax figures of Josh and Brooke, which are in progress.
Brooke surveys the finished bronze sculpture, from behind.
Brooke has sprouted taller than her 8-year-old likeness in the sculpture.
A frontal view of the finished sculpture.
A rear view of the finished sculpture.