Why I work stone and how others see it...

[dflan77@zzzzzzz]

Simon,

I guess that's the problem of the artists symbolism being reinterpreted by a new generation with different eyes and a different cultural context.  I often wonder about the Celtic symbolisms.  We are so removed from the culture that inscribed the forms, that we don't know the reason or idea the swirls and cup marks are to convey.  Least I don't maybe someone else does.  I saw an excellent spoof on what a archaeologist would think if he found someone accidentally buried by a mud slide in  a bathtub in a shower cap.  Would he mistake the tub for a burial casket and the shower cap as being a special head gear by high ranking people.  And would the luffa sponge be a important ceremonial plant ment to provide in the afterlife.  I guess when art out lives the culture and context in which it was borne then it can't help but be seen in a different way.

I have to write an artist statement. Don't know what to say.  Can't brag on Phd's or Master's degrees.
Guess I could wax philosophical.  Any ideas?

Keep carvin,

Mike