PIETA 2006
Pieta 2006, Carrara marble, life size.
Pieta is an Italian word meaning "pity," "compassion," "sorrow," it is derived from the Latin pietas. It is the name traditionally given to works of art representing the dead body of Christ in the arms of his mother.
Pope Benedict on the Pieta concept : "The languages into which the Gospel entered when it came to the pagan world did not have such modes of expression. But the image of the pieta, the Mother grieving for her son, became the vivid translation of this word.: In her, God's maternal affliction is open to view. In her we can behold it and touch it. She is the compasio of God, displayed in a human being who has let herself be drawn wholly into God's mystery".-Mary, 1997, page 78.
begin here Day One 
CARVING A MARBLE PIETA, the video
from day one to day sixty-five, with detailed pictures and comments about the process by the sculptor.
day one two three four five week one
sixteen seventeen eighteen twenty
twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six twenty-seven twenty-nine
thirty-seven (hole in the marble)
forty fifty-three fifty-eight fifty-nine sixty-one
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