From:
"George Graham" <georgergraham@zzzzzzzzzzz>
Date:
Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:25:46 -0500
Subject:
YAY DUST
Frost's Secret, roughly it is:
Quoted text begins.While we dance around and suppose
the secret sits in the middle and knows.
Philip Whitley
End of quote.
Philip,
This is a good time to leave the fine art of ridiculous exaggeration, which
is how I was responding to Visiual's assertion that carving stone is on a
par with clubbing baby seals. The conclusion to such an idea is that all
human activity is destructive no matter how good the intentions are. The
very act of making a stone wall that has no "carved" surfaces is a slaughter
of innocent insects, destruction of topsoil, using tools that crush and kill
just to get to the job site. Should we just all sit down and die because our
existence is killing the very ground we stand on?
I think you have gotten my plantation mentality backwards, I'm not the
master, but the slave! No matter what I plan to do with a block, the stone
has the final say in the out come. I dance around the banker, asking
permission to work. The stone just sits in the middle waiting for me to
agree with the master's plan.
I'm always interested in new ideas. Growing and changing as an artists is as
natural as breathing. But when a "new" way of thinking is pushed forward by
condemning everything else to the level of being a butcher, the first word
that comes to my mind is , bullshit.
I'm a saint, and you are a killer of innocents ain't no way to have a
reasonable dinner table conversation.
Thank you for the Frost poem. That one will have to go up on the studio
wall.
Someday an evening post dinner conversation among friends will have to
happen!
George
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