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4. FAREWELL CLEMENS 1993, three-dimensional medal, cast bronze, 75x75x48 mm (c) (not for sale) Clemens, a friend of ours, phoned me one day to tell me that he had cancer, and that he had only a few more months to live. Besides photos and memories, he wanted something tangible to leave his wife and children. Clemens is represented in a variety of ways, in the legend, too: lived the life – sharpened the mind – played the game – knew the law’s weaknesses – fought the fight – understood life? (GH) A lawyer, he was shrewd, curious, a man of wide interests who lived intensely. This is my first three-dimensional medal. For the head itself I did not want to make a plastic portrait, but a silhouette empty, as a pointer towards transience. That gave me a cue for this three-dimensional solution.