The Te Kupenga Stone Carving Symposium has been underway for a week now in sleepy little New Plymouth.
We popped back for another look today and I'm pleased to report that some progress has been made and sculptures have been wrestled and pulled from the bare rocks of a week ago.
This will all be over on the 24th of this month, at which point the carvings will be available for viewing prior to being auctioned to the rich and influential.
I'm not included on that list for some reason....
I am a confirmed and certifiable nutbar with a penchant for skulls, bones, blood, guts, fire and anything slightly peculiar and mostly bizarre. I also...
Your processing has given this carver a feeling that in some ways imitates the material he is working as if he himself might be carved out of a slightly more mailable form of stone.
@jgpittenger Neither sadly, but not for lack of trying ;) @epcello Thank you very much :) @redy4et Thank you very much :) @rachelwithey Thank you kindly :) @gardencat Thanks very much - I wasn't too sure about the processing but it will do ;) @jamibann Thank you very much :) @tinley23 He was certainly a happy chappy :) @julzmaioro Someone has to ;) @lyndamcg He polishing one on this shot - there a few others close to being finished so now it all depends on me getting back down there....
@epcello Thank you very much :)
@redy4et Thank you very much :)
@rachelwithey Thank you kindly :)
@gardencat Thanks very much - I wasn't too sure about the processing but it will do ;)
@jamibann Thank you very much :)
@tinley23 He was certainly a happy chappy :)
@julzmaioro Someone has to ;)
@lyndamcg He polishing one on this shot - there a few others close to being finished so now it all depends on me getting back down there....