Stories tagged “sculpture”
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Sculpture
Chip by slow chip, he came from the heart of the marble. A thousand, thousand taps of my chisel had outlined his chest, rounded buttocks, full lips and tousled hair in rough relief. I blew the fine, milky dust from the shoulder I’d revealed. Hard...
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Obra Maestra
Hope. With a crisp image in his mind of how the final figure would look, the sculptor inspected his block of stone. He lifted the chisel and took weary stab at it. A quiet clank resonated through the space as the sculptor set the chisel back down on th...