"Marble is a beautiful and durable material that has been used in construction and art for millennia. It is vulnerable to acid rain and severe weathering, but when one begins to carve a piece of marble it feels quite durable and resistant.
"I enjoy working with a wide range of tools, from electric-driven dry diamond blades to hand and
pneumatic chisels, electric and pneumatic grinders, and even rasps and hand grinding stones. When I have completely formed the piece, I hand wet sand it 6 or 7 times, then polish and wax it.
"A metaphor I like to use when someone asks about carving marble and the patience it must take to do so is to ask
them to think of some daily journey they might make, like to the local store, versus a longer journey, say to a town 200 miles away. If the journey to the store takes 20 minutes, and if it is your only destination, you probably have
a certain mental attitude about the time it will take to get there and you preparedness for the “journey.” If, on the other hand, you were to follow that exact same route as the start of the journey to the town 200 miles away, the time and effort would not be an issue (unless traffic was heavy and you were in a big rush). Similarly, carving marble takes a lot of patience and effort, but if you don’t try to rush things, if you accept the road ahead and find a fitting pace, it just becomes a journey to be experienced.”
