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BigmanPigman

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10. I remember when someone took a hammer to it in the 70s.

Reply to CatMor (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 26, 2018, 10:15 PM

Apr 2018

In art school we learned that he would spend a ton of time in the marble quarries choosing the perfect piece. He would see the vision of his planned sculpture coming out of the stone and that is when he knew he had the right piece of marble.

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