Fog and Fish
A foggy start this morning, making everything seem heavy and cold. I know it will clear soon enough, as there’s a warmer, brighter beaming of the background sun, which will shine and clarify.
Sometimes carving feels like this, a shrugging off required of all superfluous stone, which weighs the shape down, a dense enclosure. Slow, steady chiselling (there are moments when it feels like I can’t get through) brings out sleek lines and sharp shape. And this time a fish begins to emerge and feel smooth and swimming.
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I get it. there is always a point when I am carving down the wax when I think I’ll never get it where I want it. but it does always get there. mostly. I’ve abandoned more than one model that I just could not get right.
Do you keep your abandoned models? Just wondered if you came to them later and found they were better than you remembered, or worthy of further work.