What Does it Matter?

My mentor Mike Skop said (more or less), “While you’re sculpting, don’t say ‘I am taking the clay (or the wood, or the metal)’ to build your work, say instead ‘I am taking the energy’…because that’s what it is…energy…and you are simply transforming it."

But of course! How else would Michelangelo, one of the finest sculptors on this earth, be able to carve David from a piece of marble so it seems as if blood flows through his veins? Energy, training and plenty of practice.