Others: More and More Balancing

A "Kiwi" educator and blog conference organizer (who even offers us a recipe for kiwi-fruit dessert), Lynsey Gedye writes that he expects "to return to the art over the winter [ ed. note: New Zealand winter = July ] when the raging southerly winds direct from Antarctica lash our coasts." An excerpt from his blog, Marginalia, is posted on this site as a Reflection. Further rock photos are anticipated.

Tim Terry works professionally with tile and marble, and artistically with "terrestial metamorphic" rocks and stones from family property in Alpine, California. An extensive collection of his self-printed rock and nature photography is available from a commercial online Gallery and from his personal site. When he isn't working at his many crafts or arts, he's practicing for an assault on the world bowling-ball stacking record.

German mechanic Volker Paul became a Steinkunstler ("Stone Artist") while building sand castles with his son. After a year of intensive practice on weekends and evenings, he went half-time on his mechanic job and began balancing professionally along the bank of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). He includes among his achievements the balancing of an 11 kilo "Steinkolosses" on a 50 gram "winzling" - impressive even without translation. He places the origin of the art in central Africa.
Prints of Volker's work available on the Sales Galleries.

The German artist Clemens Baumgartner lives in Munich and balances his stones in the European Alps. For him it is like a Zen practice: "fully concentrated, always being aware and in balance with yourself and your environment." His website gallery, Zensteinturn, contains striking images and evocative philosophy.

Blue Spectral Monkey (AKA Christian Collins), based in Asheville, NC, spends his time collecting, creating and DJing psychedelic music and art which stimulates the mind and body. Along with aligning rhythms, BSM focuses cosmic energies to balance stones along his journeys, creating antennae which transmit peaceful energies to all who enter their proximity. These monuments, however temporary, pay homage to magickal moments which enrich our lives, and resonate harmony which permeates the global subconscious. (text by BSM)

Moving from gallery to shoreline to urban neighborhood, Matthew Loflin Davis works by preference with concrete rubble for both his balanced and stabilized pieces. Recreation Department attempts to remove his temporary installations on Belle Isle in Detroit have drawn great public support for his work. His Artist's Statement includes the comment, "My sculptures can be permanent enough that they live to be seen ... or they may be knocked down by vandals. But I know that even when they are destroyed, they provide the raw materials for me or someone else to use again." He is available for private installations.