I was asked, “how does one get into this field. Is it possible to pursue as a hobby? Any recommendations?”

This question was posed, on a post I made about this recent land art/stone masonry sculpture installation.

I started as a laborer by day while working on my arts at night. It’s possible to do manual work all day keeping a small idea notebook in your pocket. When the boss wasn’t looking, I’d quick jot down an idea. Maybe a song, or just a line, or a plot idea for a story.

So I learned multiple trades over a decade, and then started my own business (in 2007). Shortly thereafter I began manifesting my artistic ideas through the medium of stone. Still learning. And there’s so much yet to come.

My site is full of DIY ARTICLES if you want to learn the trade side of things.

If you want to get into stone art, here’s my recommendations:

Go outside, handle a stone. Gaze upon the stone. See it. Hold the stone, feel it. The shape, the nuance, the millions of years that the stone has been here for. Hold it to your chest. Hum. Feel the vibration of the humming resonate the stone and your bones.

A million years later, if you still exist: handle a second stone. Or draw a picture. Pictures can be drawn with paper and pencil–or with sticks and stones.

nature art Christmas Tree. There’s more than one way, to stack stones.

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There’s endless way to get into doing installation art. Just like there’s endless possibilities of what you can do with your chosen medium. My way, was to learn a trade and go from there. I believe in that way. It’s the hard way. But nature is here, to be interacted withBut then, there’s other trades. If you wanted a career doing something similar to what I have going on, then you might spend a decade learning carpentry, joinery and furniture making, before branching out on your own, to do it your own way. Learning never ends.

Thank You

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