Revolutions in Communication
Cave Paintings to International Icons
Imagine the certainty required
to carve your thoughts in stone.
This is not the work of a grafiti
artist adding some pigment to the
local cliffs. The pharaohs devoted a
large fraction of the GNP of Egypt
to design monuments, to quarry
stone and move it long distances
and to raise these slabs into the
sky. Generations of craftsmen were
trained to engrave the stones and
armys of workers were needed
to build skyscrapers whose goal was
to assure the immortality of a way
of life.

What are your beliefs?
Are you absolutely sure that you're
right? Would you be willing to commit
half of your lifetime income to carve
them in stone? When was the last time
your community raised a memorial
designed to outlast its creators?

As you get older, have your
beliefs changed? Are you getting more
set in you beliefs or does age bring
an increase in your ability to see
another viewpoint? If, at age 10, you
began a 60 year project to build a
monument to your beliefs, how many
changes in direction would be evident
in the final work?

[Egyption column - 90k] [Inset Statue - 104k]

Time needed to create: Long
Longevity: 4800+ years and counting
created by bob marzewski, May 1996