The video for this really says it all so I’ll keep this text to a minimum. I’ve posted a few times about the enlarging machine but this is the first time I’ve actually set it up to use it. This one is physically setting it up on the bench. In the next one I’ll actuallyContinue reading “A Figure In Stone #7: Setting Up to Enlarge”
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A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 2
Squaring off the bottom so the block could be stood up was interrupted by a mini-hurricane. We continue from Pt 1 which you can find here. It’s all in the video below so I won’t write too much here. If you don’t know how to go about flattening a stone, that’s covered early on. IContinue reading “A Figure In Stone #5: Standing Up Pt 2”
Old-School Materials Science
Classical Greek sculpture arrived abruptly as these things go. In the Fifth Century BCE, naturalistic sculpture suddenly replaced the stylized kouroi that had decorated Greek temples for centuries. The sensibility seems to change overnight. It was the same Greeks and there is no matching discontinuity in architecture, so what happened? A lot of things changedContinue reading “Old-School Materials Science”
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