At that time he switched to sculpture to fulfill a boyhood dream. Studying under Professor William Thompson at Ohio State University and later at the University of Georgia, he earned the M.F.A in Sculpture in 1972. Architectonic means monumentality, if not in size, then at least in scale.
Sculpture needs a soul, an expressed spirit.
Maudlin and trite themes are a contradiction of monumentality. The past and present dictate the evolutionary process toward omega point. A people, a city, a nation, a global citizenry admire the past to aspire to future magnanimity. Henry Setter does sculpture in bronze, aluminum castings, stone, and wood carvings. The human figure and animal figures are rendered abstractly.