Anybody interested? Yes, absolutely...

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Yes,  Hooray for bronze!

As much as stone speaks to me I can get stuck!  Bronze can
be a way out.

Carving and clay work seem wonderfully opposite.  In clay
one builds up and voids are established in interstices; in
stone one removes and empties to be left with solid forms.
 Stone can only dwindle, clay grows.  Stone requires great
committment and strong intent; clay is whimsical and free.
 A work in stone always en route to a final permanent
form; clay is transitory and will never be permanent.
Clay and its twin, bronze, can be snapshots of a sketched
wish; the work in stone remains hidden until the very end.
 The stone work will always be less than starting block;
clay will be the sum of many blocks.

Bronze for me, is to return to the thought that material
is secondary to form.  Form as in visionary form, the form
that grows in the mind asking to be incarnate.  This golem
I would build to set the world aright asks to be
clay-made.  It needs nothing of the rule of subtraction,
wanting only to be the factor of destruction of anything
which already exists.  Stone, always, already exists.

Bill