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Man of Letters

camera icon ©TOM PICH PHOTOGRAPHY-NYC One morning in November, Benson sat casually on a countertop in his workshop. Sun spilled through the big windows onto cups of brushes, rows of mallets and paper mock-ups of gravestone designs. Tabletop-sized pieces of slate leaned against wood beams. Hung on one wall of the meticulously organized workspace was a portrait of Benson’s grandfather, who revived techniques pioneered by Roman artisans around 2 A.D. Those methods, which Benson still employs, entail painting letters with a broad-edged brush directly onto stone, then chiseling them out in what’s known as a “V-cut” cross-section, for the wedge-shaped gullies that form the lines of each character.

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