Fellow Shadow Watchers, While reading Jack Aubert's comment on John Carmichael's technique I looked again at:
> ANNIKA LARSSON'S STONE CUTTING & CARVING TECHNIQUE > 6. Spellcheck > a. check papers/correspondence [with client] > b. do a letter by letter check of the text on > the stone ....and smiled somewhat bitterly at the memory of recent transgressions in this respect to do with roman numerals. At a recent exhibition there were two dials from my hand on display with a secret prize for the first person to spot the 'deliberate mistake' on one of them....but nobody claimed it. With RomNums it is so easy to see what one expects to see rather than what is there viz. VII VIII XI X XI XII This blunder had passed any number of inspections at the artwork stage by myself and the client over several weeks but, as with spelling mistakes which are only spotted when the 500th copy has just left the printer, it was noticed for the first time when expensively worked in bronze. Eastern carpet weavers always build in a deliberate pattern error because 'only the works of God are perfect'. That's one tradition I'd prefer not to perpetuate. > b. do a letter by letter check of the text. How true!...and get teh sequenec of letetrs rigth too. ;-( Tony Moss -
