Art and Numbers

["Kent and Karen Ivey" <kkivey@zzzzzzz>]

It's like when you were a little kid and had something buried somewhere," Ferguson says. "You knew this thing was there, but you didn't know quite where it was until you started digging it out."
With the NIST apparatus, the sculptor's task becomes that of chipping away the excess material to reveal a figure that already exists in the stone.
Is this the contraption that started this  thread ?

It sounds like what many folks here  describe as their process,  liberating the   thing the stone wants to become.

But it  may be too cutting edge for some . Sounds pretty cool to me. I used to do a lot of plasma  CNC work , that is a great tool. It was taking my ideas, translating them into numbers , then producing  the vision I had in mind. I was able to do anything the machine was able to do because I had years of perfecting my technique.... but the machine could do it with out stopping for a taco. But it was still my mind that had instructed it.

Sort of  Picasso/Stephan Hawking in steel format as suggested by Visual Thinker.. I like how you think ,  Sir.

I don't always agree, but you have a flair with words that usually  tickles me at 5 in the morning.

Thank you all for the thoughts, please  don't stop, and the links and suggested reading trails are wonderful, you take me places I would never have known. Right now I am digesting Guns, Germs, And Steel.. The Fates of Human  Societies, by Jared Diamond. I say digesting it because I take small bites of it and  keep it around for a long time , like cud, 'till I can absorb it internally. Some new concepts for me there  that skew how I see the world. That's what good Art does , Right ?

Thanks again...

Kent Lee Ivey