As many of you may already know I don't often use stones.
I do mount bits of things in my work but stones are rare, and if I do use them they have to be well how should I say.. a bit out of the ordinary!
Of course it would be nice if I had a "before" shot, but I don't...
Ones of the times I was in the village of Mineral de Pozos I picked up this sandstone piece that had a nice bit of orangish quartz drooozy on it.
It sat in my studio for a long time
and
today, as I was preparing stuff for the 2-week residency program at Haystack in Maine this summer,
it spoke to me.
So I called my friend Kim and he was nice enough to let me use his equipment to cut it up and make it into a few nice little shapes.
Many might not like it as a stone or say that it has very little value because most of the tops of the little crystals are broke off,
but it's something special to me because I know where it came from.
I wonder if some one I know might call these stones Wabi-Sabi?
And so these nice bits will get packed away for my trip to Maine,
perhaps something very cool will come from them during my time there!!
Jesse
Jesse
