random act of art

[piranha]

found on the access road to transfer beach, ladysmith.

there's lot of new bits of rock art down by transfer beach now; quite interesting. some look distinctly native in the general coast salish style, others (like this one) are very different. no idea who all has been carving these; gotta investigate.

Comments

[afuna]

Wow, that is very neat.

[ceri]

That really is.

I keep imagining Tim Powers-esque explanations.

[crantz]

That would be creepy to suddenly notice.

[foxfirefey]

That's nifty. I kind of want a "public_acts_of_art" community for art, random and purposefully, that's publically available to all comers without charge.

[snippy]

I wish I knew how to make something like for my garden. Very cool, thanks for sharing.

[piranha]

if only i were like tim powers. :)

[piranha]

yeah, i'd like that.

carving sfone

[piranha]

i keep thinking it can't be that hard to do, because people have worked with stone forever, before having iron for tools -- not difficult to figure out, i mean, but probably long and tedious work. but i know nothing about it beyond abrasion with a harder stone (which is how lapidary works). this was done with chisels to start, i think, but the tricky thing would be to know how the stone will cleave. once the chiseling is done, one can use rasps and abrasive stone to get a finer surface.

well, there's lots of free rock around and it won't hurt it to practice. can probably find a used stone chisel and a heavy hammer easily. i'd start with soft stone, like limestone or maybe sandstone (a bit harder, but nothing like granite). ok, so i did a quickie google: http://www.thesculpturestudio.com/stonecar.htm -- for a small face, you could easily do it with hand tools.

i saw one piece of art that was a flounder carved onto a flounder-shaped rock -- i like the idea of "exposing" something that seems already in the rock.

[kore]

Ooh wow, that's neat.