An Attentive Touch in Sculpture

 

Carving stone begins with force. Sawing, chiselling, removing what doesn’t belong. The early stages are physical — decisive, demanding, and transformative. 

Over time, that intensity shifts. The work slows. The hands move from striking to searching, from removing to refining. 

You learn the form through touch — feeling rather than measuring. Bumps, edges, and unevenness reveal themselves under your palms. 

As each piece is worked, the stone takes on warmth from hours of contact and attention.  “Your hands become your eyes,” as I often tell my students. 

The sculptures you see here represent different threads of my practice. Some are commissioned works, shaped through collaboration. Others are drawn from my own experimentation. Among them are abstract forms that begin with wild, intuitive sketching — shapes that exist nowhere else before.  

Each finished piece carries the memory of that journey, from raw removal to attentive touch.