Monolith on a block of limestone against a pale wall

Monolith

One surface, shaped by holding it.

A drawing cannot tell you how a form feels.

One surface, shaped by holding it.

From stack to surface to the hand

Monolith held up in an open right hand against a pale wall, its light and dark layers running around one smooth surface
  1. Fifteen layers, cut from one drawing.
  2. The rasp takes every step out.
  3. Fifteen outlines make one form.
  4. Fingers at the waist.
  5. Lobe in the palm.
  6. Thumb on the ridge.

Three contacts.

Thumb along the long side, finger in the waist, lobe in the palm.

A hand holding Monolith from the side, one finger hooked into the waist
Monolith resting in an open right hand, the thumb along one side and the fingers at the waist
  1. Thumb
  2. Finger
  3. Palm
Monolith turned over in the hand, the thumb pressed on the ridge above the scoop

Fifteen outlines.

Move up the stack. Every layer is one profile.

Layer
09/15
From base
≈61 mm
Width
≈67 mm
Depth
≈52 mm

RaspedAs sawnRead off the model, built from photographs and the front drawing.

Two hands turning Monolith over above a desk by a window; it sits in one palm

4.25 inches of laminated hardwood.

Process

  1. A hand closed around a grey clay form
  2. Grey clay form from above, kidney shaped with a thumb hollow
  3. Stacked and loose wooden profiles on a workbench, one numbered in pencil
Monolith standing on a block of rough limestone against a pale wall, low sun across its fifteen layers of maple and walnut

Petal Side Table

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