During the height of the 1970's and 1980's “Crafts Movement”, in addition to boxes and furniture, I designed and produced hundreds of carved clocks and mirrors to market at more than two hundred arts and crafts shows in Canada and the US.

Bass wood provides a stable medium for a thick faux finish that is often mistaken for a stone. At an international jurried carving exhibition this piece won an award for painted finishes on wood carvings.

In the mid-1980s spent an evening through to the morning light talking with a native elder about shows, business, carving, wood, stone and the spirit and lessons found in the material one is working with. I left our encounter and began carving stone as he had suggested.

The lessons and wisdom taught to me by the stone was profound. It required a 560 page masters thesis and a nearly 1000 page doctoral thesis, the publication of journal articles and lectures at several dozen seminars and conferences to share the spirit and path to meaning that I found in the journey into myself through cultural expression via connection with stone.

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