Here is the final piece. The exterior of the alabaster is (with a few small exceptions) as I found it. I sculpted the inside of the rock rather than the outside, something that one rarely sees. The title refers to the softness inside all of us, underneath our often-gruff exteriors.
The base is black granite, 9″ square by 1.5″ deep. Softness is 27″ tall, and approximately 1′ wide by 1′ deep, although the dimensions vary substantially, of course.