Character Development

extracted from the quarry soapstones, alabasters, limestones & marbles, all products of someone else’s choices culminating in our accidental, uneventful, mistake of birth--- the silky faces begin without blemish & through the early youth begin to gain the scars of early adolescence, the teasing at school, the fistfights, the pulling of hair, the catfights, the ridicule & flat out insults which end up forming the base of the cast--- if at home the insults continue, beating ensues, psychological abuse, religious oppression &/or just plain old ignorance of the child takes place, then the digging carving knife makes its way in--- by the time the carving has developed into something recognizable as a full fledged adult, its character is so warped that one cannot look it in its whittled out eyes.