Re Kalle, Kercal, Aswan, Yuzi Paradise

Quoted text begins.Aswan Granite Symposium!! The galleries are extensive and
the videos look very interesting. Those with fast
hook-ups can perhaps inform us slow pokes as to what lies
herein.
End of quote.

they take a long time to download even with DSL
sepia tones similar to that attained by hundred year old photographs
slow camera pans across a vast sun bleached wasteland of jagged rock
from which rise, here and there, like survivors (which in a sense
they are the) sculptures done during past symposiums. it's
interesting, but with the wealth of other images represented within
all those other innocent-looking urls you needn't feel deprived.

BUT, the video of the 2003 symposium IS worth making an effort to
see. not really professional film-work, but really interesting. men,
and women at work. shaping stone. there's a musical soundtrack so
you can't hear the hammers, but you can imagine them. and the other
sounds of industry -saws and grinders, crane trucks. in one segment
there were six or seven stonecutters at work on one large stone
disc,in another there were two sculptors (from Bahrain, I thought
everyone in Bahrain was a millionaire!) beating on a large ovoid
form; to the eye they obviouslyhad some syncopation going.

so this is what these affairs are like. makes one, this one anyway,
wish to participate. most stone carvers and sculptors probably work
in isolated conditions, quite different from the hustle/bustle here
in evidence. I wonder if those of you who work in isolation prefer
it like that? or do you, like me, have gregarious tendencies that
you've just never had the opportunity to indulge?

the word symposium is from the greek, it means drinking and talking
and though that's not shown, one's assumes it went on - after work
when dusty throats were anointed with copious quantities of Aswan
beer. actually they worked at night too, probably cooler. some of
the best shots were of spot-lit sculptors diligently working on their
pieces.

once again, Bill, thanks

Tomas

that Ton Kalle is something, non? a poet as well as a sculptor.