Browsing through the table covered with stones, occasionally picking one up and setting it down in a different orientation, identifying the possible shapes within, melding the stones and ideas in my mind to see if they fit. After a few visits I selected this for my next sculpture. It's a flat stone with a long flat base that contains a sailboat within. The mast extends up to the small bump at the top as the boat sails to the left in this photo with the sails billowing toward me. The photo below shows where the sails will be hollowed, capturing winds. The bottom photo shows the end view of the boat coming toward me.
Knowing that I could accidentally loose the rock's orientation during the many flips and turns as I rough shape it with an angle grinder, I took a pencil and drew a circle around the tip of the mast. Any time during the dust filled grinding, when the world is covered with fine white powder, I can blow on the rock's points to find the mast and be sure of where I am. If only life were so easy, that any time I was lost I could simply blow and instantly know where I was.
Knowing that I could accidentally loose the rock's orientation during the many flips and turns as I rough shape it with an angle grinder, I took a pencil and drew a circle around the tip of the mast. Any time during the dust filled grinding, when the world is covered with fine white powder, I can blow on the rock's points to find the mast and be sure of where I am. If only life were so easy, that any time I was lost I could simply blow and instantly know where I was.
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