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Doing your own carving

Stone Conversations : Archive 11 : Message 00322

From: "Walter S. Arnold" <walter@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:44:57 -0600
Subject: Doing your own carving

At 04:25 AM 2/6/2006, VisualThinker7@------- wrote:

Quoted text begins.If you go to the Noguchi Museum in NY, you will see a lot of small stones
which were carved by apprentices of his as part of his training program.
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In the early 70's I worked in a shop in Pietrasanta which was doing
some Noguchi work. He supplied simple measured drawings, and the
Italian carvers did all the work from that. Our shop was
subcontracting some of the smaller work to a larger shop, which was
executing his larger pieces.

Walter S. Arnold * walter@---------------
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