The Truth

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Hi Norman,
You ask some things as if you genuinely wished for an
honest best answer.  I would attempt to respond helpfully
by asking you this: the cultural and enviromental issues
you raise, what have they to do with stone carving?  Is
there a connection, an overlap?  If you are just asking
about appropriate figurate themes I would say that a
figurative enactment of global warming in the way of a
social-realist mural would be a clumsy approach at best.
You cannot help but take your thoughts and feeling with
you as you carve.  Perhaps if you carve freely enough and
open-mindedly enough some of your concerns may take
material form in a way which may surprise you.  Perhaps it
will only be a private matter of how you feel towards your
stonework.  It is what you are choosing to do with you
time while all the things you are concerned about are
going down.  If carving a stone is your best answer to
global warming and massive extinctions I would say that
you work is likely to have some sort of gravitas right
 from the outset.  You show great sensitivy to your
enviroment.  Your stone is part of your enviroment that
you get to wallop, slice, dimple, etc.  Let's see your
character in that interaction.  It is a part of the
natural world before you.  How do you respond to it?
Then, how do you respond to the alteration you have made
in the stone which is a part of nature.  How do you love
it?  How do you save it?  How do heal damage you have done
to it?  How do you come to harmony?