Stone in Autumn colours

The Yorkstone block I’m carving at the moment started with outer layers of rich Autumn colour – they’re so beautiful it makes me hesitate to cut through them with my chisel.

In that moment of stopping and enjoying the beauty of my stone I thought about those coloured layers solidly packed against adjacent stone in the quarry.   Presumably they would show a mirror image of the markings in my stone.  I wonder where they are now.   In a sense the blocks that come from the quarry are a bit like the chips that fall from my carving.  The quarry itself much more like a sculpture than the blocks that have been removed.

Anyway, back to my block and to carving, removing and scattering chips around the sculptural core that will remain.