z SOLD ~ The Offering Vulnerable Woman Sculpture Canadian Marble

Stone 26 x 9 x 7 inches Sold, Private Collection, Georgetown, Texas The Offering Canadian Marbleone of a kind26" h x 9" x 7"© 2002-9 Kelly Borsheim     This may have been the first piece of Canadian marble that I carved when I ordered 2000 pounds of stone to my home and studio in central Texas.  But it was also one of the last ones I finished.  It is an unusual stone in that the veining appears to run in many different directions, making it a bit difficult to know which way the bedding plane of the stone lies.  It was a hard marble, as I was to find out where most all of the marbles in that lot.  However, I found this marble to be fun to carve and very beautiful.     After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the then-US President George W. Bush decided to lock down America's borders. I was less than pleased. It seemed like an action similar to the "throwing out the baby with the bath water" cliché. This action caused me to really examine the meaning of the word 'vulnerability.'  I ha