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 SOLAR SYSTEM. Recently my sculptures look like space-ships or far away planets and spaces.........They do not seem to be from here ,from earth so to say.......They look foreign and strange..........They have another quality and atmosphere...........Maybe it is my mind , thinking of  nothing at all when I create , just following the stones and manage my tools to sculpt ,nothing more..........Maybe it is the total freedom of not worrying my mind about certain designs and shapes which I need to create to adapt to my clients or just to please other people with my works. Nothing at all no pressure............When these do sell or not it will be fine , they are with me sending out their messages to the world , just exhibiting these is sufficient .............Showing them here and there............Maybe touching someone some where is the idea........... Detail view. At the moment these strange stones are being exhibited in Coyoacan at Arte Hoy Galeria. For the last 2 years now they are silen
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Writings in Stone..........

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Trying out something new for me..........Taking prints on paper , using black ink , from locally found stones called " laja" which I worked on with my simple tools making patterns , lines and more..........Writings in stone , scratching in history and "recording" it on paper using my own hands rubbing in the applied ink into the moist paper..........Touching this old material ,sensing it and passing the newly made "writings" on to the paper which is soft ,weak and totally opposite in quality compared to stone.......The heavy stone does not move at all while I am pressing the paper gently because when I use to much force the paper will come apart..........easy does it , caressing the paper with my big hands thinking of the underlaying ink on the surface of the stone getting an opposite image of what I "wrote".A strange process of hard and soft , effort and patience , pressure and muscles all the while thinking in my mind.............The final resu
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The old fashioned way.

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Yes I have done it again moving a big heavy stone of about 1000 kg by myself in the old fashioned way the japanese tought me a loooong time ago when I was studying japanese garden architecture.............Just by adjusting the legs of the wooden tripod in a good way on the exact right location you are able to move any stone in any direction you want to and be very precise in the actual placement of the stone. You can adjust the stone the way you want,one cm. more to the right or a bit more in an angle to the left,higher or lower,horizontally or vertically,no problem at all..............It only takes a bit of patience,the right mindset and proper tools such as a chain-block,steel wires and an iron bar to be able to do this by yourself. After finding the right position you secure the stone by making a foundation or base using smaller stones to support the heavy stone in the position you want to........... Any one can do this,well I think so..........it is not that complicated
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Location: Umécuaro, 58355 Mich., Mexico
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I have to start thinking and planning for my object wich I intend to make for our upcoming art event called ; Proyecto en Sitio".We have invited 5 artists from abroad and about 5 from Mexico also 3 universities here in Morelia city will participate.Because I am the organiser of this I do not have time to make my piece when all the artists will arrive here in Umecuaro,Michioacan so I have to start right now doing my stuff.I was thinking to do some hanging stones pieces but I have done that before so I walked around and found a big stone on the shore of the lake which I will use.I will put this stone vertically up and create a special place around this stone with smaller stones also nearby I will create a place like an altar............not religious but anyway a special spiritual place connected with the big stone which I will call"Worship Stone".Maybe I will start collecting stones pretty soon now and even try to get this stone up with the help of my old fashioned
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terrible rainy season.

Feeling wet and moist all-over,nothing we can do about this season,only wait for better day`s to come.The local farmers seems to be happy and looking very busy planting their small plants in the submerged fields,hoping for a good crop in the autumn.Also the frogs are having a great time,at least I think,making unexplainable loud sounds,maybe having conversations about what I do not know and maybe better not to know at all.At night the fire-flies are flying around in strange patterns sending their light-messages out to any other fire-fly who is attracted by these hoping for nice times to follow.The succesful ones are easy to detect their lights are bright and shiny.Others are not so lucky and are flying in directions which I even can tell are mission impossible places to be noticed.You can tell it by the way they are flying and by their slowly diminishing lights.Finally stopping all together,pitch black.Do these creatures also commit suicide I wonder?So back to my self again terrible wh
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