The self is an illusion. It is a manifestation of the ego. You are not the center. Find the center. See the point. You are within the cycle. Learn the flow.
When the messenger finds himself standing alone, with the weight of humanity’s suffering bearing down on his tired bones, God will be there to lift him up and dust him off. He might even reveal some residual clues that help the messenger along his way.
As a carpenter, I began in a furniture shop. My job was to sand. That was it. The thing about sanding is that your fingertips become highly sensitive to subtle changes in surface variations; and so, when I hold these stones- my fingers see what is on the surface. Naturally, my fingers don’t read the stone, but they do learn a lot about the stone. After holding thousands of these stones over the past several years, I have developed a feel for them. This accounts for the confidence in my steps, not only because I see the repeating geometry, but because I feel it- more so and quite literally.
Below are images shot at 40x optical magnification. They highlight the spiked hair seen in the first image of this post and the plowed groove right below the hairline. What I find fascinating about this style of sculpting is that the form is not separate from the dance of shadow and light; instead, the form is the shadow and light.
Never doubt the will of God or place yourself in favor of the truth.
Unify the Nations – IndianRock.art
