“Everybody who works in marble seems to have the soul of a rock hound... (Robert Gove’s) rough but spacious studio...(is) a shrine to the stone and a museum of found marble art, whose gritty surfaces set off the polished arcs and ripples of his own work.
He finds it in the streambed:...half-worked pieces, cutout negative forms and stones of indecipherable provenance but of such wise balance, you’d think some neo-Constructivist mountain troll had taken a chisel to them.”
Robert’s gesturing, Early Energy II in the background
“The finest artist
cannot conceive a thought
that the marble itself
does not bind within its shell,
waiting to be brought out
by the hand
that serves the artist’s mind.”