Can one encapsulate a moment and store it for eternity ? Time and wind and water, running through our fingers, messing up our hair and ravaging the skin from our bones. I posted this piece over a decade ago, a ‘Leaf in the Wind’, an individual carried by current, without intention. People are a bit like that and one at a time is no problem. This work was made of basalt, carved by my hand, using diamonds and water. I wanted to create the illusion that hard stone could be weightless, that a leaf could be thin and light and carried by the spiral form of turbulent currents.

Some may pick up a hard stone and throw it through a window, I choose to carve something interesting. Most people are unfamiliar with work like this, it has a production value similar to dentistry. And in the end, it may survive us all


private collection: John Taylor
photo credit: Peter Lattimer
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