Art and Inspiration in rocks
Jul 5, 2019 20:29:39 GMT -5
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Post by pocketfullarocks on Jul 5, 2019 20:29:39 GMT -5
I have developed a passion (aka obsession) with the humble beach pebbles from the shore of Lake Ontario, in Oswego, NY. Four years ago I retired and moved from Central NY to Florida - the ONE state with no real rocks or minerals!! So now, on my trips north to visit family I cannot get enough of these rocks.
I was told by a Univ. South Florida Geology Professor (ironically from this same area in NY) that these are from the Canadian Shield (the following is extracted from wikipedia)
"The Canadian Shield is a large area of Archean through Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in eastern Canada and north central and northeastern United States.
The earliest part of the shield is metamorphosed Archean rocks, originally volcanic in origin...it is formed by the combination of a greenstone-granite and a gneiss terrane.[5] ...The exposed sections are often where glaciers have removed this overlying regolith to reveal the underlying glacially scarred crystalline rock."
There these beaches of perfectly smooth round-to-ovoid stones that are sloughed out of glacially compacted bluffs each winter and pushed up onto the shoreline from the ice flows and wave action. Here I am (photo courtesy of my patient husband) filling baggies with my potential treasures)
As I am an artist (watercolorist) I see a correlation to manmade art in the stones I cab quite often.
In gneiss pebbles like this one
I get a feel for the Arts & Crafts era fabrics of William Morris-
or, could it be the geometric prints of the Art Nouveau period?
Were stones like these the inspiration for this artwork?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THESE?
DO YOU SEE THE ART OF MANKIND IN THE STONES YOU COLLECT OR WORK ON?
I was told by a Univ. South Florida Geology Professor (ironically from this same area in NY) that these are from the Canadian Shield (the following is extracted from wikipedia)
"The Canadian Shield is a large area of Archean through Proterozoic igneous and metamorphic rocks in eastern Canada and north central and northeastern United States.
The earliest part of the shield is metamorphosed Archean rocks, originally volcanic in origin...it is formed by the combination of a greenstone-granite and a gneiss terrane.[5] ...The exposed sections are often where glaciers have removed this overlying regolith to reveal the underlying glacially scarred crystalline rock."
There these beaches of perfectly smooth round-to-ovoid stones that are sloughed out of glacially compacted bluffs each winter and pushed up onto the shoreline from the ice flows and wave action. Here I am (photo courtesy of my patient husband) filling baggies with my potential treasures)
As I am an artist (watercolorist) I see a correlation to manmade art in the stones I cab quite often.
In gneiss pebbles like this one
I get a feel for the Arts & Crafts era fabrics of William Morris-
or, could it be the geometric prints of the Art Nouveau period?
Were stones like these the inspiration for this artwork?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THESE?
DO YOU SEE THE ART OF MANKIND IN THE STONES YOU COLLECT OR WORK ON?
