If you look over past post of this blog you will probably notice that there are some basic shapes that repeat from week to week. This is because the fossils used as plate material are naturally somewhat similar. The main point to understand is that the craftsman had to use the surface pretty much as is, there were no tools to render a totally flat surface with out a great deal of work. I really don't think that this limitation was a consideration that the artist thought about period. The natural shape of the stone was a part of the magic of the creative process of that particular work. This is to say that the artist studied the stone as a first step in the process and was inspired as to how the work should evolve.
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