The Sculptor

I've read the biography of Michelangelo twice now.  He was an amazing man – a painter who also sculpted, famous in both forms of art. 

It is said that he could see images inside a block of marble and then his task was simply to set about freeing that image. 

What an amazing perspective. 

In the process of ‘freeing’ those images he had to wade through a lot of debris – his chippings - to get to the heart of his creation. 

Marble is expensive, but if it is in unwanted places, what good is it?  And so he had to discard the excess.  He formed, he shaped, he polished, and he discarded.

That is an important principle.  We pursue, yet what do we discard?

Thoreau once said:

“Thought is the sculptor

which creates the person

you want to be.”

In the process of holding onto good thoughts that shape us, we also discard thoughts and concepts that hinder us. 

We all sculpt.  We form, we morph, we shape, and we emerge – with each blow of our hammer.  We are shaping and discarding.

What might we look like in the end?

P Michael Biggs

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