Bruising Marble

This posting went almost unseen when I first put it up, six months ago, so after reworking it a little I’m re-posting it. The changes are cosmetic so if you feel like you’ve seen it before you probably have. If you carve marble or alabaster you know about bruising. I’m talking about the indelible milkyContinue reading “Bruising Marble”

The Real Greeks

Neoclassicism is dead and buried but serious sculpture must forever acknowledge classicism’s ghost, if only by whistling past the graveyard. Classicism has always been a Rorschach test for cultures. Generation after generation adopts the symbols and styles of the Athenians of the Fifth Century BCE, but each generation does so in a way that saysContinue reading “The Real Greeks”