July 2, 2007

  • This weekend, Matt and I took the top down on the Jeep and went for a ride.

    We drove down to Duxbury Beach, which was littered with smooth stones that had been washed ashore in a recent storm. I decided I really liked the colors, and started gathering piles of different hues. There was white quartz, yellow gneiss, blue shale, and red, violet, and green jasper. Naturally it occured to me to create some kind of artwork from the collection, so matt and I started collecting more rocks and created a large stone-wheel in the sand.

    The whole thing ended up being about five feet in diameter, and i dunno how many stones we shuffled. We forgot our camera, so I ended up having to take photos with the camera phone. The colors were really vivid, though.

    Here's me with the stone wheel, and Matt is sorting and placing the last few stones. Tendrils of my hair are attacking him in the wind!

    Closeup of the bands of color. The green is hard to see, but it was this really beautiful olive-y jasper matrix, and also difficult to find in the rubble and drift.

    People strolling along the beach were stopping to take photos and
    ask us questions. It will probably be washed away in a couple of weeks,
    but i like the idea of making temporal, impermanent art. Sort of like Andy
    Goldsworthy crossed with a Buddhist monk.

    Me and my partner in creative-crime.

     
    <3

Comments (5)

  • That's wild!!  I've never seen so many different colored rocks in one place.  Yay for you two!

  • That's the thing, though. You wouldn't have noticed all the color variations when they were in big washed up heaps. You probably wouldn't notice it in most places, but rocks come in all kinds of colors. We just clarified what was already there.

  • It looks to me like the perfect use of a day ever! You rule, you know.

  • What no purple? C'mon a creative genius should have been able to add a purple ring with a mixture of red and blue ;)
    Rockin' Art!

  • ooo, there was deffo some purple. Purple rules. the last ring was a mixture of some kind of mauve rock and this dark grey-lavender stuff. : )

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