From:
Sam Stevens <sam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Fri, 09 Feb 2001 16:27:54 -0500
Subject:
adventures of an absolute beginner
Ron writes:
Quoted text begins.Michaelangelo has to come back as somebody!
End of quote.
Um, well, I doubt I'm the return of Michaelangelo, or Donatelo for that
matter, or either of the other turtles, and as for John Dillinger...
But thank you for your comments in general. I have in fact received good
advice. I have also received many pleas to share any good advice
received. Ron's Grand Speculation gave the hint and a quick trip to the
library has yeilded a bountiful, um, bouquet of books on sculpture in
general and Michaelangelo in particular. (And if he can somehow hear me
out there, "Mike! You the man!")
So anyway, I got this rock. Stone. Whatever. And I have a file, riffler,
whatever, and I'm out in the backyard looking at the two and thinking
about how they might react to each other when my daughter Megan comes
out. "You gonna carve that?"
"I'm going to try," I say.
"What are you going to carve?" she asks.
"I don't know," I say, lifting the stone in the air with both hands. It
weighs about five pounds, I think. "I don't know what's inside the stone
yet." I put it back down on the wooden bench. "What do you think it
looks like?"
"A rock." says Meg, turning her 10 year old attention to more pressing
matters. I set the rock up various ways on the bench. Wandering around
it in a circle, I looked for what might be already suggested. Asking Meg
to confirm my suspicions, we were first certain it was the head of a
cobra. Then we found the rabbit.
I'm sure Ron will have fun with such a dichotomy. Danger and fertility,
and... seems there should be a triad there. But a choice must be made, I
do not think the same stone will accomodate both figures, so I have not
cut it yet. Anyway, I'm wondering what else might be hiding within.
Shall I keep you posted?
Sam
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