This piece will be a nearly life-size torso sectioned so that it stands as four quarters.  I intend to group the pieces with a smaller figure. Transforming a coil-built torso into free-standing quarters is a technical challenge — fabricating the internal wedges out of slabs underneath the quartered sections of “skin” (three-eighths inch wall) while preserving the naturalistic shape and contours of the figure and getting strong joints.  I stand the figure on a large “X” and scribe it with vertical lines where the “X” shows, which are as far apart as the width of two slabs that will form sides…