pointing machines barry x ball

[Pwwhitley@zzzzzzz]

George...wouldn't these same questions apply  to every artist and material?

Why would the artist use
stone? Why use a process that is more  difficult then tradition methods?

A cnc machine removes the artists from the stone and the subject at the  most
critical time, the roughing out and initial shaping of the piece.

Do you think the CNC machine removes the  artist from the process more than
the employment of apprentices?

Why go to all this effort to make perfect or distorted deathmasks with no
soul?

Personally, I thought the XBall pieces exhibited more 'soul'  than many more
conventional works.  I assume 'soul' refers to a certain  presence or 'life' a
work of art manifests.  Disembodiment  (disembowelment?) might be more
expressive of contemporary life than a  more straightforward representation could
ever hope to be.

You have, as usual, provoked thought. After reading and looking at this
work, I end up with an empty, why?

'Why', if pursued far enough, is never empty.  Even stone is mostly  empty
space...it is only the smallest, sub-microscopic, and exceedingly  difficult to
perceive that lends stone its solidity.

Cheers,  Philip Whitley