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abknight | 8 Dec 2006 15:34

Show and Tell

http://www.akrider.com/images/06j35.jpg

Dear Stone List,  as a viewer, not a carver, I repeatedly
intrude my interests into your captive audience.   I try
to restrain myself from presenting you with material that
might be unpopular.   I just really like this image.  I
don't know who the artist is, it's not a good photograph. 
It just seems quite remarkable to me.  There is no
explaining it.  It is not good or bad, this or that.  It
is more of a tickle.  Please excuse, I just can't sit mum
on stuff like this.  Look!  Look!

Bill

Robin Antar | 8 Dec 2006 16:07

Re: Show and Tell

Thanks bill that was very cool

Robin Antar 
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on a life-scale along with marking and symbol details, I attempt to freeze
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abknight | 8 Dec 2006 16:57

Re: Show and Tell

Thank you Robin,

Looking at something all by myself is not always
satisfying to me.  Often I need to hear others say they
saw it too.  I just do not believe my eyes.

The stone work is somewhere on the island of Honshu, Japan.

abknight | 8 Dec 2006 17:18

Re: Show and Tell

Those appliqued rotors happen to be a motif that was a
prime one on my journey into sculpture.  Half organic,
half of human order they are quasi entities: half math,
half beast.  They suggest starfish.  Alighted on a series
of megaliths, surprise is the result.  Contrasts are
extreme.  Scale is juiced.  The ardent carver might
complain that little carving was done for so large a
piece, or that craft has been subverted by means of steel
pins--yes I see how the piece might offend--but as I a
lay-about myself, I appreciate the economy of effort and
conceptual nudity!  Surprise me!

Robin Putnam | 9 Dec 2006 02:38

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conceptual nudity....geeez Bill....I love the way you talk/ type ....this
one directs me to a sensual simplicity.......thanks  
~Robin 
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Robin Antar | 9 Dec 2006 22:41

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I like your latest piece 

Robin Antar 
President 
Realism in Stone a division of 
Antar Studios Inc. 
Email:  info@... 
Web:   www.rantar.com  
Blog:   www.robinantar.blogspot.com

My mission as a sculptor is to create a visual record of modern culture by
capturing contemporary everyday objects in stone.  By replicating the model
on a life-scale along with marking and symbol details, I attempt to freeze
the object in time as an artistic form of artifact.  I achieve this high
degree of realism through the use of such materials as parts of the real
object, custom-made stains, paints, plastics and gold leaf.

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abknight | 9 Dec 2006 14:21

Re: Show and Tell

Robin and Robin, it is interesting to hear each of you
write of the sensual attraction of this stonework.  You
are adding to my appreciation of it.  Also interesting how
this gets back to Joseph Rykwert's dancing column and the
bodily associations  stone is so attractive of.  There is
something light and sensual about the touch of these
affixed butterfly-urchins and their contact to the
untouched and natural surfaces of the standing megaliths. 
I wonder if the artist is female?  Perhaps even affection
is being stated, though I can't help but hear echoes of
Jean Arp's "Head with Annoying Objects" (or is it
"object", tetchy fellow, Mr. Arp).

Anyway, thanks for your views.  They help!

abknight | 9 Dec 2006 03:20

Re: Show and Tell

RP--Hey, I'm having a fun time of it here!  I think I
meant by conceptual nudity I mean a very simple idea,
like, you know, stick some little carvings on some really
big rocks and it'll be, like, wow!  It's not a complicated
design process!  The viewer doesn't have to poke around to
discover how things work.  I like how it shows.

One might also consider, at this point, is the emperor
naked?  By all means.

There is also a lot of leverage here of a slight effort
pushed to a grand scale.  You carve the whirlygigs in your
backyard, order the behemoths from the quarry or wherever,
get the crane guy etc.  Come by later with your whirlygigs
and a rock-drill and, finito you're done!  What economy of
effort!

John fisher | 9 Dec 2006 03:33

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The emperor has been naked for a while now you'd think he would feel the
cold.

Robin Antar | 8 Dec 2006 17:09

Re: Show and Tell

Funny it has a Japanese feel to it. a kind of elegance. Well done, the
smoothness of the hard stone against the star fish like images. 

Robin Antar 
President 
Realism in Stone a division of 
Antar Studios Inc. 
Email:  info@... 
Web:   www.rantar.com  
Blog:   www.robinantar.blogspot.com

My mission as a sculptor is to create a visual record of modern culture by
capturing contemporary everyday objects in stone.  By replicating the model
on a life-scale along with marking and symbol details, I attempt to freeze
the object in time as an artistic form of artifact.  I achieve this high
degree of realism through the use of such materials as parts of the real
object, custom-made stains, paints, plastics and gold leaf.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail is
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abknight | 8 Dec 2006 17:43

Re: Show and Tell

Robin,  could you say WHY it looks Japanese to you?

There is this suggested great expanse of time from the
ancient to the comtemporary, the megalithic age infected
by an anachronism of stainless steel technology.  I guess
the figurative, carved rotors might constitute a middle
ages in that timeline.

Robin Antar | 9 Dec 2006 00:23

Re: Show and Tell

I don't know I just get that feeling; maybe it is the contrast with the soft
feeling of the stone against the hard lines.

Robin Antar 
President 
Realism in Stone a division of 
Antar Studios Inc. 
Email:  info@... 
Web:   www.rantar.com  
Blog:   www.robinantar.blogspot.com

My mission as a sculptor is to create a visual record of modern culture by
capturing contemporary everyday objects in stone.  By replicating the model
on a life-scale along with marking and symbol details, I attempt to freeze
the object in time as an artistic form of artifact.  I achieve this high
degree of realism through the use of such materials as parts of the real
object, custom-made stains, paints, plastics and gold leaf.

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail is
confidential information intended only for the use of the entity or
individual to whom it is addressed. If the reader of this message is not the
intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination,
distribution, retransmission, or copying of this message is strictly
prohibited. If you have received the message in error, please notify me
immediately by reply transmission. Thank you.

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Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 11:44 AM
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abknight | 9 Dec 2006 02:05

Re: Show and Tell

the soft
feeling of the stone against
the hard lines.

I like that!  It raises an intesting question about
working the contrast of raw and worked stone.  I have an
idea that valuing that contast might have a long history
Japan, but I couldn't back it up with examples.

Norman Watts | 8 Dec 2006 17:05

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The tickle effect actually, literally works here too.

n

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