When light and shadows play across their surface

There is an obsession that many stone carvers share and it is that they find it difficult to throw anything they cut or carve away. No matter how small and insignificant the stone may be, there are experiments and explorations in stone that sometimes cannot be explained. We keep hold and place them on the shelf glancing at them every day hoping to find a use or an explanation to the unique physical properties of the form. Suddenly, when working on something else you turn around one day and there is a unique moment when light enters the studio and shadows play across the surface of the objects that have preoccupied you for months. It is just then that the significance and relevance of these forms are transformed into sculptures and the clarity fills you with vigour.