Why this word is great
FICTOR — [Noun] An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any malleable material. From the Latin fictor ("maker, sculptor"), from fingere ("to shape, to form, to mold"). Unlike a sculptor, who confronts the resistant hardness of stone, or a faber, who assembles rigid components, the fictor is a conjurer of soft potential, working in clay, wax, or plaster. It is the thumb pressing a cheekbone from cool clay, the warm wax coaxed over an armature, and the patient layering of plaster to capture a negative space. The fictor understands that every solid monument begins as a fragile idea held in the hand, a slow argument of form against formlessness.