Its own room

Hanging on to Happiness

Adam Schultz · Bronze Sculpture · 12″ h × 6.5″ w

Nothing here has been enhanced. Everything you see is derived from the object — the record below says exactly how each view was made.

Hanging on to Happiness by Adam Schultz
Set your screen once. Hold a bank card against the screen and slide until the orange outline matches its width.

This is the photograph at true size, for placing it in your room with your phone. Its sides and back will appear here after the studio capture — we will not invent them.

The surface under moving light

This view is built only from real photographs of the work, each lit from a different angle, so you can move the light yourself and watch the real surface answer. It is being captured in the studio and will appear here. Until then we show nothing rather than an imitation.

“I think that for most of my life I have been drawn to Beauty in the world.”— Adam Schultz

A small figure in a red dress leans back hard against a cluster of oversized balloons — crimson, acid green, magenta, gold, orange — that float up and away to the right and very nearly take her with them. The balloons are polished to a mirror finish while she is left matte, so the light in the piece belongs entirely to the things she is trying to keep. Schultz cantilevers the whole mass out over the end of the base, which is the joke and also the argument: the composition should not stand up, and the only thing anchoring it is her heels. Funny at first glance. Less so on the second.

The Authenticity Record

ViewMade fromProcessing
The whole work, deep zoom, loupe, true sizeGallery photograph of the workNone beyond resizing for the web
Place it in your room (AR)The gallery photograph set at the work's recorded true sizeA flat photograph at true scale for placement - not a 3D scan; you cannot see its sides until the studio capture

Nothing on this page is retouched, relit in software or generated. A full studio capture of this work is scheduled.

ArtistAdam Schultz
MediumBronze Sculpture
Size12″ h × 6.5″ w
Price$1,950
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