3751. Ivan had the advantage of a childhood immersed in the
procedures of the sculpture studio, but it was no advantage to him. He was like
the tone deaf offspring in a composer, or an illiterate child of a Professor of
Literature.
3752. Even though he was handicapped when it came to carving
figures in stone or modeling a head in wax or plaster, he still had sufficient
ambition to desire to create works of art. He worked very hard at everything he
did but the works he produced were painfully awkward. It was as though he could
not see a piece of sculpture as a whole and all at once.
3753. He might craft a head for example and one eye would be
larger than the other, and the mouth and the chin could look like they belonged
to a head half the size of the skull and the forehead. In short, he could see
the parts clearly, but the whole he could not see at all.
3754. When his mistakes were pointed out to him he saw his
errors instantly and set to work to correct them but the corrections were just
as ridiculous as the original work and so he was relegated to the status of
permanent helper in the studio, even though his father was a renowned creator
of monuments.
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