The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is a series of four sculptures that come from a subscriber's poll suggestion.

Each diorama is designed as a standalone composition, but they are all tied together:

• The circular frame they all share represents the cycle:
  it starts in spring, evolves in summer/autumn and completes the full cycle in winter.
  
• The poses are symmetrical: we have two closed poses, one at the beginning of the cycle and one at the end.
  The middle ones are open and free.
  
• We have two dynamic and two static poses. Static poses are for winter and summer, the main seasons.
  Dynamic poses represent change and are assigned to the intermediate seasons (spring/autumn)
  
• Each season is assigned a different culture as a theme.
  There's no special reason for it, other than a personal visual preference of mine.
  
• Each season has their own symbols, flora and fauna fit in the diorama.
  I really liked one of the ideas from the comments to the poll, which suggested a cultural theme to the seasons (you can still see the comment represented in Winter).
  However, instead of having one culture for all four of them, we will have one culture per season.

Autumn

"Autumn" is Slavic.

It features traditional Slavic clothing, accessories and a Samovar.

The base is decorated with symbols of Autumn, like mushrooms, pumpkin and with some bonus hedgehog and a squirrel.

I wanted to add even more symbols, but they didn't' fit with the already dense composition. 

There is only one candle here: this is a prelude for the symbol of the next season to come (Winter).

Her pose is dynamic and open, as is the composition : Autumn is the season of change.

The frame here is almost complete: only one season is left in the cycle.