In times where happenings and installations have the life span of an exhibition, hand carved stone as a full-fledged means of sculptural expression is not the hopelessly outdated activity it still seems to many a contemporary. In fact, it is an effective antidote against the pandemic loss of landmarks. Language evolves but the medium stays, because stone (Or wood, another not-man-made substance) requires an involvement of our entire being such that it reunites a body and a soul increasingly dissociated by the alienating frenzy of our post-post-modern culture. The quest for identity has never been as acute as in this era of global communities. Our response to this XXIst century malaise lies in the awareness of what we are rooted in. To fully integrate our legacy is a necessity if we want to fulfil our true vocation with dignity: the tremendous responsibility of being human, embracing our power of destruction in order to overcome it through our power of creation. We create when our tool, our hand and our mind act as one.In this action, it is paradoxically what we shun most – our mistakes and imperfections – that lead us to places we have never been to before (for the unforeseen reveals the unknown), namely, the space of freedom and unconditional creation.