This is an opinion column
The Lowe Mill studio of sculptor Everett Cox is crowded with people, but only one of them is living—Cox himself. His lifelike figures stand on tables, pedestals, and benches, waiting to be finished by the artist’s hand and his process.
Cox has been a working sculptor for more than forty years, after getting his undergraduate education at Auburn and then finishing his graduate studies at the University of Georgia. In his student days, he was taught to get better at his craft each year, but he thinks the best philosophy is to make sure your work is better than it was ten years ago. It will be, if you keep at it. And he has…