Marble Stone Carving Gallery
My inspiration comes from movement I see in the natural world. Water rushes around boulders creating a myriad of forms in the sand. An acorn falls into a pool of water with splashing and rippling waves. When carving a stone, I go with the movement and allow the forms to grow in the same way that forms grow in nature.
Free Form Stone Carving
My inspiration comes from movement I see in the natural world. Water rushes around boulders creating a myriad of forms in the sand. An acorn falls into a pool of water with splashing and rippling waves. When carving a stone, I go with the movement and allow the forms to grow in the same way that forms grow in nature.
I start carving the stone and the forms begin to develop. When I first start carving the movement might be rhythmic or chaotic. Either way, out of the movement of carving the stone, a form will begin to develop. I go with the movement and allow the forms to grow.
I look at myself and see nature at work in the forms of my own body. I see the swirling movement in my fingerprints, the geometry of my eyes, and the symmetry of my body. Nature is “thinking” in me, building the organic and geometric forms of my body. I believe that this nature that has been “thinking” in me from the beginning of my life is what forms the foundation for what I believe are my own conscious thoughts. When I am carving a stone I do not want to copy or imitate the forms of nature that surround me, but rather to let the nature that is “thinking” in me guide the development of the forms.
Organic and geometric forms are growing all around us in all the plants and animals that live and grow. Not only do we see this movement in the living forms but we also see it in things material world. The water rushes around the boulders and back into the sea creating a myriad of forms in the sand and the stones. When an acorn falls into a pool of water we are able to experience the forms of the splashing water jumping up into the sky and the concentric waves vibrating out from the point of impact. I want my stone to grow in the same way that the forms of nature grow.