Anybody interested? Well, no ...

["Oscar Bearinger" <oscarbear@zzzzzzzzzzzz>]

hey John
Your response to Dulce is funny (to me!) and to the point as well.
I quite agree that this chap Macdonald does great work but I sure appreciate
you finding this gem of a newagespeak:
"The image represents the anatomy of the golf swing ...etc" :o)
And I think Dulce may be a woman, John.

As to your questions, Dulce:

I think there is room here for discussions of a more theoretical dimension,
artists need to talk about art,
but it is hard to keep a boundary on that type of discussion
and there is limited tolerance here for getting too much into the
airey-fairy!

My Gestalt statement on this (Philip!) is:
all theory and abstract thinking needs to be grounded in WORK, the inner and
the outer need to exist simultaneously.

I myself am most interested in my own thought patterns WHEN I AM ACTUALLY IN
THE MIDST OF CARVING!

And, Dulce, your message last evening was indicative of how boundless this
type of discussion can be.
Your questions were so large for me that I am at a loss how to respond.

One small piece perhaps:
I feel that life drawing and sketching the human nude is vital to my own
work.  Yet paradoxically I have never done a stone figure as a realistic
nude - I happen to be working on one now, a miniature, for the first time.
Why do I feel life drawing and the human figure is so central, when I
actually work in a more abstract, and expressionistic (if I may say) mode?

Do other people find this?
There seems to be something about the body that has to do with where we
begin our work.

Happy carving, all
Oscar