Sculpture Vulture

Sculpture Vulture was the title of an article featuring me in a London, UK magazine, so I thought I may use today…kinda catchy don’t you think?

I said I would blog about my Stone Sculptures, and I do what I say, so here goes…

I believe Stone is our past, hurled to earth through the big bang, and that it will still be here when we are not…notice I capitalize Stone, it’s that important to me!

So, I also believe,  if you listen closely, it whispers it’s story.

Every stone I sculpt is millions and millions of years old, before I even touch it!  Now that’s pretty powerful as a thought…I can’t even count that high, it just boggles my mind!

I work completely intuitively.   I feel a tingling through the palms of my hands when it’s time to choose a stone… that tingling is energy!!!  I felt as a child, but, couldn’t put a name to it…I didn’t have the vocabulary!  To tell the truth,  sometimes I have made a decision to sculpt one stone because of its energy and boom another stone’s energy is soooo strong, it is impossible not to work it!  It’s a bit like kids talking over another, ‘no…me first!  No me first!   We always hear the loudest kid first…same here!  Pretty cool eh?

Stones are all different; we’re different from each other because  we have different life experiences…same for the stones!   For me it’s almost like someone, long ago, in another world stamped their history on them.  Whose to say that’s not true?   So my sculptures are all different.  Strange but true!

I don’t want you to think, because I feel all this that sculpting is fast…it is very long process,  extremely  physical and I am wacked at the end of a day, but, it’s the ‘it’ job for me!  

Now…I can’t lie, every once in a while I think…instead of Mr Lube coveralls I would love to go to work dressed up…but, that might do me in,  I’m not certain I can still wear heels!

‘Snow Shadows’ at the top of the page has a story.

It’s about untangling hurtful words from a sentence, separatinģ the good from the bad;

the hurtful words words are caught in the depths by ‘Snow Shadows’.  It has a poem too, just like the rest of my work.

I just finished another 4.5 foot sculpture yesterday…I will have to take a picture and tell you about it…This is just the beginning of my sculpture story…so stay tuned!