ROCKS enRAPTured by Dreams

FIND MY DREAMS ALL WRITTEN IN CRYSTALS
This year's RAPT rocks were given 'names'.
above and below is the first of this season. i delivered a group of fourteen to Folio today for next week's open house. 

'Dreams': sumi ink on parchment, gold leaf, text
 

"SILENCE
is intensified into a stone: broken circles are closed"

SECRETS HIDDEN
above, with messages and worry stones tucked away

THE ICE STORM ENDED HAPPILY
(above and below: silver dust and wire, pearls, glass)

PROMISE KEPT
(above with beach glass)

GOOD NEWS TO ME
(above with bamboo and reed)

ETERNAL LOVE
(above and below)

VALLEY OF THE MOON, 1300 A.D.
(N.M. pottery chard)

PRESENTATION

START THE FIRE
(above)

love is light
(hidden copper heart and script)

WORRY FREE
(old pocket worry stone captured in the bamboo wrap)

a few laid out at home for their "shoot" on our yard's new hardscaping....

ROYAL clicks...rocks picked

a solid instrument, revisited at a friend's gathering

pressing firmly, one key, one click at a time
one word at a time, thinking about the wrapping of rocks

here's the Random stream of words I 'pecked' out of the Royal:

ROCK ROCK rock rapt
enraptured, emotionally carried away
wrapped, embraced, tied up together, gifted
courted    cared for   taken home


life transitions, life's hidden released,
cared for in the carrying, 
enrapturing your self in the process


rock ROCK stacked   paired   coupled
kept waiting for the right one
heavy load    CHOSE.    step.  set. stack.  WAIT.


Wander     Return     Layer   Lay on, Return
rock, Rapt, wrapped:      when it's right
smoothed   balanced    topple    tumble   
touch
lightly
bind   bound   bumped    toppled
wrapped rapt enraptured by rocks


water stream     mountain flow 
sandy,  ripply,   left by the wind
water feathered,      waves washed. 
carried with great Motion


embedded quartz
    bedded-down to rest
home   rest  Repeat...Rinse    rocks.
recovered   honored   simply given


Shared with Grace

LAKE MICHIGAN ROCKS, above and below, 2010
PLENTITUDE
what a difference a year made

how to CHOSE?

SAME BEACH, 2011....how to FIND?

aw, A GROUP...chose all and consider the weight

SOME ARE ALREADY "SPOKEN FOR"

some come home with me. some leave together.

STONES: enrapturing me

...this began years ago as I, like so many others, would become enRAPTured by certain stones, connecting with their spirits/markings/shapes/colors and carrying them away with me to make my stacks and altars at home.

Eventually, I became compelled to find ways to join certain stones together 

and to enhance others...

IN REVERENCE FOR

what Nature had created.

my Lake Michigan shoreline stones soon found good company with other elements such as vintage papers, quartz, fossils, turquoise, pyrite, obsidian, leaves...

and were secured with wires, waxed threads, beeswax, rattan, fabric strips

and text: Pablo Neruda, of course, E. Meloy's quotes from
the Anthropology of Turquoise, and me.


THIS COLLECTION IS LEAVING TOMORROW FOR THE SHOP AT FOLIO'S.
(Saying good-bye to them as I took the photographs and packed them up)

the incredible lightness of rocks...

 

 

 

 

just delivered these "newly enraptured rocks" of mine to Folio Salon...
using more of my images/photographs/drawings, a large crystal, as well as 1850's period Japanese wood block papers (the hand/japanese lettering) ~~~~~
my friend noticed that these are so much lighter than the last group.
and they indeed are. these smooth greyish-white stones call for that, and i respond.

here's Pablo Neruda's homage to the crystal:

"Quartz opens its eyes in the snow
and grows spiky,
slipping on the white
into its own whiteness:
multiplying the mirrors
it poses in facets, at angles:
white sea urchin
from the depths,
it is son of the salt
that shoots up to heaven,
glacial orange blossom
of silence,
very principle of foam:

by virtue of the earth's pride
the clarity that awaits me."