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Show f -!iXMX lSlSjSXKsi!5 This lifesize sculpture is being created by Jan Fisher, a sugar industry in Hawaii, former Pleasant Grove resident, as a monument to the Sculptor creates Hawaiian monument the wheel. The eighth character will be on horseback. Also included are a poi dog, and a fighting rooster. He has stong feelings for the largest figurine of the eight, a Hawaiian. "You see his soul in his body. The magnificence of human form. There's nothing more beautiful than the human form. Regal, proud. That man has never been beaten. An Adam figure, if you will. A primordial figure," Jan said. Jan Fisher, a former resident of pleasant Grove, has been com-jisioned com-jisioned to design and execute a bronze and concrete monument to commemorate the 150th anniversary an-niversary of the sugar industry in Hawaii. Jan, a professor of art at Brigham young University in Laie, Oahu, has wrked steadily since January on He mammoth 45-ton sculpture. It as to have been unveiled July 27 y Jan is running a little behind schedule. He and his four assistants have been sculpting like crazy in clay, putting in 16- and 18-hour days. The six figures are inside of a huge wbeel, made to resemble the orginal wheel used to squeeze the liquids Irom the sugar cane. The entire sculpture will be cast in bronze to finish the project. Fisher, son of the late Troy and Beatrice Monson Fisher, graduated from Pleasant Grove High School where he studied art under Harold Woolston. He received his Ph.D. and has taught at BYU and is now an art professor at BYU-Hawaii. He is head of the art department there. Jan has studied under many great artists throughout the United States. He and his wife, Becky, are the parents of four children, two boys and two girls. An excellent artist in her own right, Becky works in the studio with Jan. He enjoys doing all forms of art. He served an LDS mission to Mexico for two and one-half years. One of his best supporters was his father who died of a heart attack at Bear Lake just last week. This sugar industry monument is the largest, most ambitious work he has undertaken to date. He says that the figures in the sculpture pay tribute to Hawaii's immigrants, whose descendants are his friends and colleagues. There are seven life size figures in |