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Stone Occurrence

The Stone Occurrence is an abstract stone landscape based on my Master Thesis from the University of Georgia entitled "Environmental Art in Stone: An Archetypal Landscape for Southern New England" in 1985.

This project was inspired by my travels to Japan to study Japanese Gardens in 1982 while at the University of Georgia. The thesis premise was inspired by the dry-stone temple gardens of Japan and the work of contemporary artists like Isamu Noguchi, Carl Andre, and Richard Long and extends the concept that one could use stone in contemplative ways to articulate the human and man-made patterns on a site.

The Stone Occurrence is a result of that research. 

It was built by hand from found stone by an assembly of good friends over the course of a single Labor Day weekend in 1985. Like my thesis it makes reference to the human and riparian impacts--building ruins and water-worn mounds--on this particular piece of land in the Catskill Mountains in New York. 

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