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the patient sculptor who removes everything that isn't the masterpiece hiding inside
means A carver is a person (or tool) that cuts and shapes a material like wood, stone, or meat by removing pieces from it.
from From the Old English verb 'ceorfan,' meaning to cut or slice — the same root that gives us 'carve.' It belongs to an old Germanic family of cutting words, possibly a distant cousin of the Greek 'graphein' (to scratch or write), back when writing itself was just careful cutting into a surface. So every carver, whether of cathedral saints or the Sunday roast, is doing the same ancient thing: making meaning by taking away.
- subtraction art
- creates only by taking material away
- Mount Rushmore
- carved by dynamite, jackhammers, and 400 workers
- George Washington
- chemist Carver invented 300 peanut products
- thanksgiving role
- wields the most ceremonial knife of the year
- netsuke masters
- Japanese carvers fit whole worlds in thumbnails
george washington carver — botanist who developed 300+ products from peanuts at tuskegee institute, alabama, 1896-1943
raymond carver — american short story writer and poet, 1938-1988, known for minimalist fiction like 'cathedral'