Calling Up the Stones
This current body of work ambitiously tells stories of belonging and struggle. Each work serves as a document and map for places I have visited, mostly within California and Oregon; a long list of locations on mountains, buttes, rivers and beaches, where I have collected raw treasures. I cut, shape and polish stone, inscribing distances, geography and processes on to my bones skin and memory- Shaping point and sherds into patterns.. There is nothing more intimate and kind; nothing convinces you that the earth waits for us, like a stone revealing its beauty. A piece of star of and magma, of time and gem skin, that waited for hands and vision. Walk the earth, the trees and plants will tell you they tendril roots to dance in intimacy, to feed from the underground, the life of stars that feeds our world. Just a rock. Some find it easy to understand. In our dreams we trace narrows, feel ravines open within, as if our ribs rode ridges. Its a certain look, the distant eyes of near visi
