From:
Walter Arnold <walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 09:27:56 -0600
Subject:
Reading carved stone
At 10:40 AM 1/21/2000 -0500, Seamus O'Mahoney wrote:
Quoted text begins.written word. Sometimes when one writes about something,
it becomes severely diluted. Let the art historians
write for the few people that are interested; in the
End of quote.
If it can be said with written words, then the proper
art form to express a concept is poetry, or song, or
novels... I'm not a big fan of philosophising/explaining
why I do it either. I'd rather let the work speak for
itself.
Sculpture is appropriate for things that can't be
expressed in words. We can certainly discuss concepts
around the periphery of the subject, but to try to
define carving with words is to limit it (just as trying
to describe a novel with a block of stone would be very
interesting, but wouldn't have much at all to do with
the novel or the novelist).
Technical aspects, on the other hand, can be useful to
discuss with words. Just IMHO, of course. (thats
Internet-speak for "in my honest/humble opinion")
Walter S. Arnold
Carving Limestone, Marble and Pixels
walter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.stonecarver.com/
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