great carvings

[abknight@zzzzzz]

I bet Mr. Sotomayer would give his eye teeth to have that
lady roughed out by mill; if he has a maquette in the
first place.  The sawing out by slivers is almost
Egytptian in laboriousness and perhaps therefore good and
noble.  The most moderate of technophile would feel the
sawing away of large blocks of offal by rail or band saw
or even chain saw would be sensible is such a project.
Instead of piles of neatly stacked banana sized shards,
Mr. Sotomayer could have multi-cubic foot blocks ready to
be stock for another project.   His method is driven by
penury and is quite reasonable for that situation.   As a
matter of fact it would be similar to what I would do on
such a speculative venture, but I would hope to remove
larger chunks with an angle grinder.  Surely we all know
someone with a chainsaw we could hire for a couple of
days?  I would go there first, as a St. Louis sawing
outfit wanted to charge over a grand for 3 or 4 bandsaw
cuts of a 27 cube block of marble.  I think the finishing
of the partial figure is an advertising gimmick as is the
whole project.

As for purchasing predilictions I would be stupified to
have an Argent lip bench on the premises as well as to
have Mr. Ball's portoro "Bill Jensen" over by the TV.
But the question of such prospective ownerships is very
stupifying and makes me glad to live on a world of stone
that is untouched and uncarved and most everything is yet
to be done.   I would be hounded by their authority.

I am also contrite for my calumny of the inestimable Maya
Lin, who does not thow things at assistants, but rather
not at assistants.  Perhaps she will leave off sawing and
start to carve.  She could hire Bob.