Went to see my lovely friend Stan and he showed me a large photo he had framed of a self portrait he did in stone many years ago . Stan was a coal miner, and at times when he was a young man his job was sitting on the weighbridge which involved many hours of sitting around waiting . so he occupied himself carving the 120million year old stone with a filed down nail. He has several pieces and the detail is quite something. He is adamant he felt at the time it wasn't really him doing the carving but something that came through him, a gift.
