Monday, May 19, 2014

The Blank Slate


Painters have an empty canvas, writers have the unwritten page, and sculptures have a block of clay.  Shapers, however, have the untouched blank.  Inside of it rests a surfboard waiting to be used, but the excess material must be removed, refined, then made more permanent with a resin shell.  The process is called deductive sculpture, where material must be subtracted to create a final piece.  This is the exhilarating moment, seeing the crude outline of a surfboard sitting on the stand patiently waiting to become something else.