The pose decides the engineering
A figure with one arm raised holding a light is structurally a cantilever, not a balanced object. Almost all the interesting work on a build like this happens below the shoulder: the frame has to carry the arm's weight and the wind it catches while keeping the raised line straight, and the base has to resist a tipping moment that a symmetrical figure never generates. We size that from your local wind data and the footing you can actually provide.
The pose is also what makes the piece recognisable at a distance. Strip away the detail and what remains must still read clearly: crown spikes, a raised torch, a draping robe. If the silhouette fails, no amount of surface finish rescues it.
Colour that reads as aged metal
The figure is famously oxidised, which means the palette is not one green. It runs across cool verdigris in the recesses, warmer green on the lit planes, and warm gold picked out on the torch flame and crown. That mix is applied by hand after the silk is stretched. Because the panels glow, the tones stay close in value; a hard dark-to-light contrast on a backlit surface breaks up into blotches rather than reading as patina.
The torch and the crown sit on their own accent circuits so the two most identifiable features stay bright even when the body is dimmed back for a longer evening.
Built for a plaza, not a museum
The intent here is a plaza landmark rather than a scaled model. That means the proportions are tuned to how visitors actually meet it: they approach across open ground, stop in front of it, and photograph it with people in the frame for scale. Height, base treatment and the amount of robe detail are all set with that viewing distance in mind.
If the site wants the piece at night only, the figure can be finished for lit viewing. If visitors see it in daylight too, the finish is adjusted so the silhouette holds unlit.
Commissioning a version
Height, palette, base form and the brightness balance between body, crown and torch are confirmed during quoting. Because the piece is a replica of a monument, we work from reference imagery and produce a structural drawing and 3D render for approval before production begins, and we build it in our own workshop in Zigong.
