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STONEWORK
I used air hammers to rough out many of these sculptures, using hand chisels to finish them off. I used sandpaper and polishing compound on some of them to get a higher sheen.
I get my stones from a lot of different places. I have never bought one. Fieldstones from Door Co., WI, are my favorites and I'm slowly turning out a series of heads at a rate of about one every two years. The gravestones were inscribed completely with hand chisels.
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(L & R) "Fieldstone Head #2" As I've said, fieldstones are my favorite to work on. You never know if they are going to fall apart on you and you never really know just how beautiful they will turn out. |
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(L & R) "Fieldstone Head #1" THis was the first one that I tried. It has always reminded me of "MAD" magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, and a bit of myself. |
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(L & R) "Family Group" this unfinished piece is a mother holding a baby being embraced around the waist by another child. The limestone was a capstone from a building that was given to me by the O'connell family. Hopefully I'll have some better pictures of this one soon. |
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(right) Grave Marker for Eila Perlmutter (2001).
(left) Grave Marker for JF Powers(1997 & '99) |
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(left) "Owed to Joe O'Connell" is a small (approx.5"x5") piece of limestone that I carved as a gift to Joe a few months before his death. (right) "Rats" is a about the same height as "Owed," I carved it as a practice piece for something that I was going to carve on Joe's last masterpiece, but time ran out so I never got to do it. Both of these pieces are limestone. |
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About the Music"2nd Movement"
This was written in 2001 using Cakewalkexpress8, I had been thinking of writing a symphony and had no idea how much work it would be. But I did get few interesting peices out of the experement.
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