Machine "engraving" is in the same league as machine checkering. They both bear a resemblance to the real thing, and the likeness can be sufficient to anyone so inclined. These processes, however, cannot replace or even compete with hand work. They are replicas, identical reproductions of fixed design and lifeless examples of what technology can do-- over and over. Claudio's current Holland project illustrates perfectly what only human beings can create. We're in a world now where so-called progress renders more and more people obsolete. We need to celebrate all kinds of work still being performed by human hands.
