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.
Ouch ! (I didn't spot it either, until I read the text underneath, and
went back to it). Reminds me of the TV programme about the (then) new
series of bank-notes. They had just finished engraving the plates, when
a letter came from the Palace, saying that the Queen was not happy with
the way her portrait would appear on the notes :-(
Richard.
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