It aint easy to rock a rhyme that’s right on time.
This one grew right out of the Earth, before my eyes.
4 tons of stone.
5 foot 3 inches tall.
Each vantage point looks different, this photo shows where the blue face (left) meets the purple face (right). More photos and video, this weekend or next week, after I get the jobsite more fully cleaned, and get my photos sorted through.
What’s so different about this sphere?
Compared to others I’ve made?
The first major difference is my experimentation here with color gradient. There’s 3 main faces: a face made primarily from purple bluestone. This face as a yellow inlay.
Then there’s a blue bluestone face. This one has Vermont purple slate inlay.
Finally there’s an olive green bluestone face, with burgundy inlay.
Then there’s a gradient transition from blue to purple, purple to green, and green to blue. The inlays meanwhile transition from purple to yellow to burgundy. A couple of times I actually did a gradient here, from yellow to re to burgundy–and also from burgundy to purple. But from the purple inlay to the yellow inlay–the transition was made just by having dots there.
Bands of dot along the gradient between blue face and purple face
Also, there’s the anchoring into the ground aspect, which I’ve dabbled in before, when I anchored the 7th Lithadelic sphere into the flagstone patio.
This one grew out of the ground.
There’s 3 trailing inlays that anchor it into the Earth, making it appear to have literally grown from the soil.
Sculpture hidden along a trail in Lackawaxen PA
A simple rock stack /cairn trail marker in the foreground was there on site already, before I started. There was plenty of good stone to go around, so I wasn’t temped to take any from this stack!
Stones leftover from various stone art projects were cannibalized for this project. Shown here are some interlocking triangles and circles: a cool idea, and they topped some previous cairns in the past–but too fragile for this world! And a paisley-like piece, carved for a pathway mosaic, but left unused. These were all repurposed for the interior structure of the sphere sculpture.
It’s built from a mix of stone types:
- Mostly Pennsylvania Bluestone, both leftover pieces from flagstone patios that I build pieces collected on site.The jobsite was in Lackawaxen, and that’s bluestone country, these woods are full of bluestone.
- The yellow inlay is sandstone from Scranton PA.
- The Burgundy is a very hard sandstone from Blakeslee PA. Not quarried–I had to score these pieces. Hoping to find more!
- The dark purple inlay is Vermont Slate. So are the red highlights you’ll see, here and there.
- The dots come from many sources, including reclaimed granite countertops.
- A few bits of colorful limestone are in there too.
- Some quartz dots–well hidden, to surprise you later
The larger dots here were hand carved from sandstone, bluestone and Scranton stone, same as the main body of the sphere, while the smaller dots in the middle were carved from 1″ granite counter top material
How was it built?
According to the principles of dry stone construction.
How to you keep it sphere shaped?
I wear my granny glasses. Also I bring with me one of the Stone Rings of Power–and use it as a visual guide.
Stay tuned:
- I will have photos of the other side of this sphere sculpture, soon.
- Will be adding a unique bench to this site, within a few weeks or so
to commission stone artworks and masonry projects contact devin@devineescapes.com
