By John Klyce

The rotund figure’s hands rest on his knees, with some of his fingers spaced slightly apart and one of his pinkies edging onto his leg’s side. His eyes and mouth stay closed, and his face, giving the air of a personified seriousness, keeps position. Naked, relaxed, and plaster-cast white, he sits in the corner of the house’s window-filled studio. “This is everybody’s favorite figure,” says Sharon McConnell-Dickerson, a blind artist who has done close to a hundred life-size, face, and hand castings of both bronze and plaster. “He’s my Buddha.”

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