In 1993, the Furnace Mountain Zen Retreat Center commissioned me to carve a Buddha in the Appalachian foothills of Eastern Kentucky. I traveled there in my Sportsmobile, a converted E-350 Ford beverage-body van…
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If you want to start carving soft stones such as alabaster, soapstone, or talc, you may have all the tools you need in the kitchen and garage.
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today is a low point
my creativity slumbers
and snores, a dull
orange coal ash-covered
My drawing looked like a Japanese ink painting. It was like nothing I had ever done before. What was that all about? An artist friend later told me it was a “Zen moment”.
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