As someone who works primarily with a camera, computer, and sometimes paper and glue, dust is my enemy. I'm definitely not a neat freak since my studio floor can be a sea of colored paper torn from magazines. However, a speck of dust on a camera lens can be a real pain, so dirt is something I generally prefer to avoid. Artists who carve stone accept living with the dust. Well, they do when they are in the studio. The "mess" created by carving stone is one of the reasons having a separate studio is so important to the sculptors from Walnut Creek - that and the camaraderie they experience by working together. Below are some of my favorite photos of the dust that covers everything in the sculptors' studio. The photos show the tools used in carving stone, some of which were intriguing to me. Below: Lisa's stone rests on a pillow as she carves. Lisa makes the pillows used by the sculptors, which she fills with sand to help cushion the stone. She has to be careful to keep the sand from getting in her sewing machine! The tools in her hands are a mallet and a chisel. The file lying on the work stand is called a riffler. Above: The top of a stand used by a sculptor is covered with bumps (and dust!). Above: The base of a stand used by the sculptor so that the stone is at the right height for carving. I particularly noticed the reinforcement at the bottom to improve the stability of the stand. Above: In the left foreground is a maquette, a small model of what the sculptor is carving from stone. Michael has made numerous maquettes, some of which he has used to help him make full-size sculptures, but many more that are awaiting their time to be replicated in stone on a larger scale. (More on Michael's maquettes soon.) Below: Although there is not much dust in this photo of Dave's glove, I had to include it because his gloves are part of his tools and because it's one of my favorite photos from the shoot. The wear on that glove is just really cool.
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AuthorTiffanie Heben is a photographer who has been inspired by the artists in her community |