carving
patience and focus
To carve or work reductively an artist cuts away from a solid material to reveal a new form. The artisan becomes intimately acquainted with the wood, stone, bone or chosen material. Chisels and hammers are ancient hand tools, and currently, power tools can aid the effort. The subject matter for carving sculptures through the ages can be literal or symbolic, and can be found in everyday life, as adornment for architecture, or as representations of the spiritual. In any case, carving a sculpture is a process that demands patience, concentration and planning.
Carving
According the Tate Museum in London, “carving is a sculptural technique that involves using tools to shape a form by cutting or scraping away from a solid material such as stone, wood, ivory or bone.”
![Figurative Element from Ceremonial Drum [?]: Seated Female and Child 15th–17th century Mbembe peoples](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d276316f112b90001e0bf50/1572360510911-3QM1024LFYZ0VRI2IMMC/main-image.jpeg)
In The round
The Seated Male Figure from the mid to late 19th century from the Kakongo group of the Kongo peoples is n example of how three dimensional artists account for all sides of a work of art. This idea of working on multiple sides and multiple views is called working or composing in the round.
