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The Goddess

Cal the Stoner - Intricarved stone sculpture The Goddess progress image

Cal the Stoner's 16th Intricarved sandstone sculpture

Cal began sculpting The Goddess late February 2022. Directly after completing The Andamooka Tiger. On the 2nd February 2022, coincidentally aligning with the year of the tiger!


Once completed The Goddess will be an imposing 6'9" Intricarved Grampians sandstone nude sculpture. 

Artist portrait Cal the Stoner and The Goddess progress image

Set on a 1 metre diameter mirror finish stainless steel base. Featuring world renowned Andamooka opal for fingernails, toenails, eyes and navel stone, The Goddess will receive duplicated but larger markings as tattoos on her upper arms to that of under The Andamooka Tigers eyes; a three pronged lightning strike, knife blade and hammer.

Once completed The Goddess will be an imposing 6'9" Intricarved Grampians sandstone nude sculpture.

While sculpting The Andamooka Tiger in late 2019, Cal and his son Zed planned a trip to Athens in June 2020 to see heavy rock band Deep Purple.


COVID hit the trip delayed till July 2022, by that time Cal had commenced The Goddess and took the opportunity to also check out the detail of the classical female nude, in particular the representation of femininity and the way the classical sculptors approached muscle tone.


Cal returned to his Andamooka open-air sculpture studio to continue sculpting his own beautific nude sculpture.    

The Goddess update, April, 2025, her kissable lips

Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update

The Goddess progress update April 2025, her lips...

Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update

the Intricarved sculptural style will be fully documented,

Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update

while I make her face and turn her into the most beautiful of women.

Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update

For now, the beginning of her kissable lips.

Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update
Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update
Cal the Stoner The Goddess lips April 2025 update

The Goddess update, March, 2025, her face

Cal the Stoner The Goddess face March 2025 update

The Goddess progress update March 2025, her face...

Cal the Stoner The Goddess face March 2025 update

Man, faces alter angles and directions every quarter inch or so

Cal the Stoner The Goddess face March 2025 update

she's doing my head in, but not quite, I'm still holding a tenuous grip on sanity.

Cal the Stoner The Goddess face March 2025 update

And the rocks that will make up her lips - as long as I can see her lips in there is all that matters.

Cal the Stoner's Creative World: Where Imagination Meets Reality

Cal the Stoner - Intricarved stone sculpture The Goddess progress image
Cal the Stoner - Intricarved stone sculpture The Goddess progress image

Sculptor Cal the Stoner pauses work. No, not 'the Brazilian' The Goddess only waxes to 'the Goddess' style.

The Goddess update, 26 August, 2023, her complex heart

Luke Jarred, heart technician / maker, installing The Goddess's complex heart mechanism.

Cal the Stoner progress update The Goddess, August 2023, Luke Jarrad heart technician / maker

The Goddess has her heart,

The Goddess has her heart. Just awaiting the sculptors blood for fuel.

just awaiting the sculptors blood for fuel, a complex electrical connection, then the wait...for a bitter, turbulent night and let the lightning do it's stuff.   

46 individually crafted sandstones are now at thigh height. This nude is going to command anyone within her gaze.


Artists log 2 march 2023

The Goddess progress update, April 2023, the cover over the domed mirror finish has been temporarily removed for these progress photos.

Now comes the detailed part, beginning to introduce hair into the intricarved sculpted nude form.

    With a come hither hand, the fierce warrior goddess greets her sculpture studio compatriot, The Andamooka Tiger. Ever on guard.

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess come hither hand progress image

    She begins to take shape

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess progress image

    The stones natural colour changes under the sculptors hammer and chisel. With exposure to the sun and air, the stones natural cream-gold colour will progressively reappear. In this photo you can see how the stones colouring from the feet upwards has already begun to blend and soften, it’s worked its way up to her knees now. 

    The Goddess, Cal the Stoner's 16th intricarved sandstone sculpture

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess progress image

    Cal's Intricarved sandstone sculpture process takes individual stones featuring desired characteristics which he then hand carves into the desired interlocking shape. Stone by stone, the sculpture forms until his vision is completed. As opposed to the classical process of commencing with a block of stone and carving to remove stone and create a shape out of it. 

    The colours found in Grampians sandstone respond beautifully to natural light.

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess progress image

    The Goddess, her feet gently washed and glistening in the afternoon desert sun after a days sculpting. Cal the Stoner sculpts primarily in a stunningly naturally coloured and hardy Grampians sandstone quarried using dimension stone technique.

    The Goddess will feature Andamooka opal toenails, fingernails and pupils.

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess - progress image

    Check out episode 4, series 1 of the Opal Hunters: Red Road Dirt Trip where James “JC” Caruana and veteran miner Rod Manning drop by The Andamooka open-air sculpture studio hoping to sell Cal their opal parcel. 

    From humble beginnings...

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess - progress image the first foot

    From humble beginnings, The Goddess will become a 6'9" Grampians sandstone Intricarved baroque-esque imposing addition to the sculptural tradition of the nude. 



    Once completed The Goddess will feature jewellery crafted by Justin Boheme.

    Cal the Stoner - The Goddess - progress image - she will feature jewellery crafted by Justin Boheme.

    Once completed, The Goddess will feature gold jewellery; anklets, bracelets, earrings, belly button ring with semi-precious stones crafted by Justin Boheme. (pictured is the artists jewellery, not the actual pieces)



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    Cal the Stoner blogs updates on The Goddess

    Follow Cal's progress as he blogs updates during the sculpting of The Goddess live from his Andamooka open-air sculpture studio

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