i am an artist and create with my mind and my hands.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving (the removal of material) and modelling (the addition of material, as clay), in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since Modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modelling, or molded, or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works (other than pottery) from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, has done extensive research and recreation of the original colors. Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I like to create sculptures  with my mind and my hands"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Great!!  I like to think of sculpture as a 3 dimensional painting.  They are very visual art pieces."}, {"role": "user", "content": "i like how a sculpture takes up space. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, quite.  A long time ago they would carve wood or stone, or use clay to make a model, but these days there is no limit to the materials which can be used."}, {"role": "user", "content": "my favorite materiel is metal. the gridiron of the metal and the sparks flying everywhere."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I concur.  We still have ancient sculptures that were carved in stone, due to stone's durability, but unfortunately most of the wooden or clay sculptures have long since disintegrated."}, {"role": "user", "content": "but there will always be more to replace them"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes, we are producing many sculptures in the modern era, but the development of the style of greek art was remarkable, given that it occurred around 750 BC.  Some of the best  figures come from this period."}]