I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.
The first stone was just tried in the spirit of experimentation. The opening of the stone was far more interesting than the drawing that I had done on it.
I soon realised that what had happened on a small scale cannot necessarily be repeated on a larger scale. The stones were so big that the amount of heat required was prohibitively expensive and wasteful.
Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.
As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.
The first session I did with the Stones was an accident. I just happened to be wandering down the hallway of the same studio.
Stones are checked every so often to see if any have split or at worst exploded. An explosion can leave debris in the elements so the firing has to be abandoned.
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.
If any have a stone to throw It is not I, ever or now.
When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
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