Thanks for the feedback. It's always a personal thing to shoot sculpture; there are two reasons IMHO to do so. One is to communicate the view of the artist, in which case a full view is used. Another is to elicit a different interpretation, viewpoint, or to communicate details that are lost in the overall view. In this case, I was trying for the latter. The hands, themselves, are interesting to me. Artistically, it is not very different than the original intent, you are correct.