Not long ago, I wanted to present a carving to a filmmaker–something suitable in text and, according to her preference, carved in ebony. I chose the Biblical phrase “and there was light”–the point being that a filmmaker depends on light, and is in a sense a creator of, or in, light. In her particular […]
It has taken almost a year to get the text, but now it has arrived, I can’t afford to rush it. This is my latest endeavor: to make a dining-table for myself, with a Blessing in Balinese carved into the top. The English version reads: Bless this food Bless these people Bless the table […]
I’m not sure I ever expected to see people writing in their own indigenous endangered script, but the all-knowing Chris Miller of Montreal passed me the time that Hector de los Santos has posted on YouTube a video of Hanunuo students in Mindoro, the Philippines, writing in Surat Mangyan. Click on this link: Students on the […]
If I’d had any kind of artistic training, of course, I would have learned this truth back in tenth grade, I suppose. Instead, I’m learning it now, and learning it literally from every angle: it’s all about light. When I’ve already carved the text, I have to have low light falling across the wood so […]
