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Cheng Ting-Chen
Art Exhibition in the Forest of Yokohama
Stone Sculptor in Taiwan
The sculptor, tightly girdled from head to toe with a thick cloth, summoning up all his strength and energy, looks like a soldier making ready for battle. Leonardo de Vinci once described the sculptor’s work as a most mechanical exercise accompanied many times with a great deal of sweat which combined with dust which turned into mud. He also added the sculptor’s face is covered with paste and marble dust, so that he looks like a baker, he is covered with minute chips, so that he looks as though he had been out in the snow. Great satisfaction is taken from stone carving compensations for all the tiredness and pain in the sculpting process.
For me, Carving is reaching into the pristine layered earthly formation and releasing the form lying dormant within the stone. To me an untouched stone represents a deep time span over countless millennia. As I peruse the rough stone, I visualize a continuous progression from the past to the present.
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