Carving with torches

[Norman Watts <Norman_Watts@zzzzzzz>]

I was in the Chavin ruins in Peru a few years ago. I was there after a month
of climbing in the Andes and decided to do so site seeing. They are kind of
dank and rough-and-ready. In this case I was imagining something refined
along the lines that one sees in sculptures: beautiful stone, polishes or
interestingly finished surfaces, curvaceous surfaces -but done on the
inside. The Lincoln Memorial here in DC is lit from above in part by thin
marble slabs that transmit light. Going "inside a boulder" with light from a
thin area, or from aperatures, would be the idea. Of course, in a modern
city park nobody in his or her right mind would dare go near the darn thing
for fear of traps and urine. But if you did go inside I bet it wouldn't
leave you unaffected.