What you see is a self portrait, made form marble from the Rambla from the canteras or quarries of Macael, in Almeria Province, at the east of Andalucia in southern Spain. So- it's art. Arte some have to say. Fine art. Visual art. High Art. In french it is 'plastic arts' and 'beaux arts'. Spanish- 'artes plasticas' and 'bellas artes'. In fact art is supposed to be a generic for, is it, literature/poetry, plastic arts, painting all together with history and mathematics.

Mathematics probably shares the solution- which is the best simple truest resolution or what as a sculptor could be called the simple fitness of form. I came here because http://sokolovsculpture.googlepages.com like all gpages doesn't get picked up on by s/engines( and especially not when 3-D 'forms' are the 2-D content), and can't be redirected usefully to a dotcom either.

Why no dotcom? Well it is regged, and supposedly up,and I'll redirect this blog there but ...I started that googlepages set up, for which really I should thank Google. It's easy- unless like me you have megabytes of tiny hazy edited down photographs or -in fact- jpegs. But the structuring works, and as long as there is this hiatus before really easy software bridges the gap into the mediawiki/blog/gallery future, normal hosts don't appeal. ' Geeklog ' and ' MediaGallery ' promise the future, and maybe that's the way to go- allowing some interested reader to safely email directly to a page, allowing a plethora of archiving power, but looking beneath the hood you soon see dire amounts of programming savvy requirement.

Incidentally there is at least one other Alexander Sokolov 'sculpting' out there, though you wouldn't confuse our work as he says he is anti- ' traditional sculpture '- or something. More about the marble of the Rambla another day.