Walter S Arnold

Museum & Art Gallery in Elgin, IL
Museum & Art Gallery in Elgin, IL By training 1st with the hammer and chisel and working by hand, I earned an intimate feel for the stone and a broad repertoire and vocabulary of technique. My classic European training gives me the experience and liberty to select from both old and new tools and techniques. Most of the carving here in the U. S. Is done with saws, grinders, and sandblasting methods, which are nice for fast removal of material, but don't bring out the character of the stone in the way that the old chisel techniques do.

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The Canterbury Tale
read moreDuring my third (and final, but that's another tale) year of high school, we studied Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. As a way to evade the final assignment (not wanting to be bored by doing a serious, scholarly research paper with citations and footnotes) I hatched a creative alternative. Creating an additional character for the pilgrimage, a "Stoon Kerver", I wrote his tale in (my attempt at) Middle English, executed in calligraphy on an onion skin scroll. While pointing out that I hadn't fulfilled the actual assignment, and that the meter was a bit off, the teacher felt the paper had great sense of Chaucer's style and it earned an A+.
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