Re Kalle, Kercal, Aswan, Yuzi Paradise

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Tomas!

Thanks for telling me the Aswan movie!  Its the Kiss of
the Spiderwoman!  Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Raul Julia and
Bill, the whitey, the sputtering whats his face,
bespectacled, balding.  Anyway if you know what I'm
talking about--No Tomas, I won't go to be with you!  All
another day here at Robbens Island.

What I noticed between and Kercal and Aswan was that at
Aswan it was often very obvious in the final carvings that
they had started from a squarish quarry block, whereas at
Kercal is was generally obvious in the finished work that
the carving had developed from an already well established
shape present in the stone to begin with and most
definitely was not at all sufftering from the ordinations
of the cube.

What about Kalle and the mystique of the stone?  Is this
all getting too cute?  Should we worship stones?  Or
simply carve them.  The two symposia offer the results of
contrasting processes of idolatry of pre-existing form and
requirments human will and vision to shape the rock
through stock removal, pulling a form out of Euclidian
coordinates.  The effect of the cubic beginnings tell on
every stage of development.  At the very beginning it is
impossible not to think of one's desired form as existing
in relation to the cube before one's eyes.  One measures
and defines one's form as being in a certain position in
space in relation to the skin of the cube.  The final
results often show constaining compaction characteristic
of granite, but also of the cube.

  The contrast even sharpens more when artists
participating in both symposia work is compared.  Kalle,
Patrice Belin and one Egyptian come to mind.

Belin
Aswan
http://www.cdf-eg.org/English/Symposium/symposium2004/Image/patrice-Betin-98.jpg
Kercal
http://www.comblainaupont.be/images/sympo/2004/040802-sympo-Belin.JPG

Armen Guerboyan
Egypt
http://www.comblainaupont.be/sympo/2002armen.html
Kercal
http://www.comblainaupont.be/sympo/2002armen.html#2002

Kalle must be compared at his own site as there are no
pictures at the
Aswan site.

The all conquering cube?  Just playing.

What about this fellow and the amazing tusk rock?

http://www.yuzi-paradise.com/china/art/artist/1006/big/1012.jpg

Can you beat that?  The wild rock rocks.  The wild beast
in the wild rock rocks.

Bill