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People have always seen birds flying and wished they could fly. Hunt expresses his personal experience through his artworks. It is about investigating ideas of personal and collective freedom. Place of curved bronze pieces rise up as tree grow toward to the sun. African American background of Hunt supports Upward seeks for freedom and right and not staying in the past. It grows with the culture. Edges of from in diagonal composition to lay emphasis on rising and characterise as drawing in space. Artists speak the seeing mind and it becomes the seers job to translate in the way they see the piece.

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