Why I work stone, and how others see it.

Quoted text begins.We have a civilization built on the efforts of all those of past ages.
The results of strength and knowledge passed to the next succeeding children.
End of quote.

I agree, Mike.

When I visted Craig Medson's stone sculpture symposium a few months ago, I was
struck by the contrast between the transitory creative process, and the
everlasting product.

Permanent stone structures link us to the invisible builders from another time
(no, I don't mean the space people that built the Pyramids and the Easter Island
statues!).

But you would have to ask yourself how an artist's statement could be
interpreted in another time.

For example, when the Brisbane City Hall was completed in 1930, Daphne Mayo's
sculpture filling the tympanum above the main entry was designed to immortalise
the pioneers of Queensland. Today, it is interpreted as commemorating the
destruction of Aboriginal culture.

Read more here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1247876.htm
See an image here: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an23478017

Simon