Devin Devine, stone sculptor based out of Pennsylvania
Sculptures built and delivered across the USA
dry stone egg sculpture
Newly completed commissioned piece: the dry stone egg with color gradient. My goal here was to create as subtle a transition as possible, from purple/lilac base to gray/blue top.
My customer is an avid bird watcher and avian enthusiast. Having seen my spheres and vases, she asked me if I could create an egg for her. Of course I could–but let me do something interesting with the color arrangement…
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completed here in PA and on its way to upstate New York
I get asked all the time–you build cairns, right?
The best answer I can usually come up with is….sort of! I consider cairns to be a rustic tradition. Who uses a hammer on a cairn? As such, I usually call these stacked stone, or dry stone sculpture. Or natural material assemblage`, if I just happen to feel the need to interject some artsy french words into the talk. These may be built in situ (see what I just did there?) or, like this egg here, they can be built remotely at my workshop and then wrapped up very carefully and delivered.
In addition to rusticity, cairns also tend to be ephemeral. My works are intended as permanent and this piece does have a small amount of well-hidden mortar, to help make it portable and to protect from vandalism. For this reason, I started referring to my works usually as “stacked stone sculptures”, rather than “dry” stone sculptures a few years back.
Cairns tend to look more like this….See the difference?
Related content: stone path with ramps, cairns and mosaic elements
Nothing wrong with cairns, they are great too. It’s sort of out of respect to the tradition of cairn building, that makes it difficult for me to call these sculptures as cairns. Each and every piece of stone has been hammered, chiseled, saw-cut, torched and kissed before being added to the overall structure. Okay, in reality I only torched 2 of these stones. But still.
Well this current piece may be the first completed, permanent piece of mine that I’m willing to call a cairn. Well, almost willing. The spheres are too swirly, too colorful obviously well refined. The vases–similar deal. Just because of their shape, they don’t feel like traditional cairns to me. The egg shape meanwhile…and the relatively simple arrangement of stones, not swirly, not flowing, and not obviously carved.
more stone arts by Devin Devine:
- planetoids
- Squiggly Noodle
- outdoor art mosaics
- places to sit (hand made stone benches)
- planting vessels
- places for birds to bathe (hand carved stone bird baths)
serious inquiries, contact devin@devineescapes.com
