I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
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I used to dig around the sandbox and pull out pieces of coal and show them to my mother, and she used to say that's how I must have known I was going to be a geologist.
I carve stone. I've got hammers and chisels and I carve from sandstone. I just did a big mural of birds and trees.
I am a geologist.
I've been collecting rocks since I was 8 and have over 200 different specimens.
A window of opportunity for me usually involves a rock.
In my junior year, I studied geology on Saturday mornings at the Museum of Natural History. Mineralogy has always been a major interest.
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders.
I might be like a conductor, or I collect the stuff together and I do a lot of my own writing. But what is a pleasure is the whole creative thing in which we're all excavating and trying to find something.
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