“When Michelangelo was asked how he created a piece of sculpture, he answered that the statue already existed within a marble. God had already created the Pieta, David, Moses… Michelangelo's job as he saw it was to get rid of the excess marble which surrounded God's creation.”

My teacher Akira Kasai describes consciousness as energy. In his Ephesus Eurythmic dance technique, he guides students to awaken internal/external listening senses so you embody energy of consciousness. Master Kasai often discusses, “Is it I dance or I am danced? In Butoh, I have to make myself fully available for it to come in”.

I wonder if Michelangelo also listened internally to create the Pieta and David.

In dance, the old patterns and habitual movements are the excess marble to be removed, the consciousness is the sculptor.