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12/14/2011
A Work In Progress

12/14/2011
Autumn 2011 Haiku Contest WINNer Announced!

10/12/2011
My Dream

10/12/2011
Check This Out!

10/12/2011
Have You Seen Teddy's Fountain?

10/03/2011
Igneous Rock Gallery Haiku Contest Guidelines

10/03/2011
Summer 2011 Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

6/14/2011
WPMT FOX 43 Visits Igneous Rock Gallery!

6/14/2011
Video of Current Inventory

6/14/2011
New and Improved Landscape Lights

6/14/2011
Spring Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

5/03/2011
Fountain to be Auctioned at Derby Day!

3/24/2011
Simply the Best?

3/24/2011
An Enduring Tribute

3/11/2011
2011 PA Home Show Special

3/11/2011
Remembering Rick Alcorn

3/11/2011
Winter Haiku Contest Winner Announced! / Spring Contest Entries Welcomed

2/16/2011
Rest In Peace, Rick Alcorn

2/09/2011
Counting Past 130 and Balancing Rocks

2/09/2011
Autumn Haiku Contest Winner / Winter Contest Submission Deadline

2/09/2011
PA Home Show

2/09/2011
Igneous Rock Gallery Fountain Design Party Discounts!

2/09/2011
Sedimentary Rock Gallery?

11/17/2010
Current Special Promotions – Our Best Ever Offer!

11/17/2010
Autumn 2010 Haiku Contest

11/15/2010
One Thing Leads to the Next…

11/08/2010
I'm A Rock Star

10/15/2010
Sid and Gena's Indoor Fountain Sculpture

9/07/2010
Vacation Musings/Balancing Work and Play

9/07/2010
Igneous Rock Gallery Traveling Dog and Pony Show

9/07/2010
2010 Summer Haiku Winner Announced

9/07/2010
Igneous Rock Gallery Harrisburg Fall Home Show Exhibit/One Million Dollar Cash Giveaway!

8/10/2010
This One Could Be Yours

8/8/2010
Summer 2010 Haiku Contest Deadline Extended

8/2/2010
Jerry and Crystal Created Their Own!

7/13/2010
She Stole My Heart

7/13/2010
Table Top Fountain Workshop

6/17/2010
New Fountains

6/15/2010
Do You Want to Meet My Dad?

6/14/2010
The Year of the Creep

6/6/2010
My Impending Incarceration

6/6/2010
Spring 2010 Haiku Contest Winner Announced!

3/20/2010
First Quarterly Haiku Contest!

3/13/2010
Honorable Mention at 2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show

3/12/2010
Video of Valley Forge Display

My Dream




I love creating. I also truly enjoy:

• meeting people and getting to know them and understand what they want;
• sharing what I find compelling about the aesthetic and scientific singularity of Beaver Canyon andesite;
• experiencing reactions to our stone and the water features I am able to create with it;
• translating imagination into a lasting positive physical reality.

I want folks to entrust and empower me to create art that lives, gives pleasure, and serves to focus and reorient in those all too rare and fleeting spells of relaxation. This is what I do. This is what I enjoy. This is what makes me feel honored and energized.

I have created many modestly sized and priced fountain sculptures in both residential and commercial settings. I am indebted to those who have purchased them, for this has helped me pursue such an artistically fulfilling and unusual vocation. As far as I know, I am uniquely blessed in this regard. To my knowledge, no one else makes the presentation of this exotic and rare material their primary artistic focus.

Now let's talk dreams! Modesty aside, I want the opportunity to create something truly extravagant – an elegant and singularly uplifting fountain sculpture of iconic scale and intent, a one of a kind in the world feature where imagination could fly free of the mundane, one that would draw upon everything I have learned and propel me and my cadre of creative associates beyond where we have been into the fertile fields of our imagination.

I have detailed out this dream, and in my imagination I see:

• exclusive access to the best material the Beaver Canyon quarry can produce;
• a pre-build project phase where the feature would come to life as a mock up, to run and be tweaked by all involved and finalized prior to installation on site;
• a client with vision and budget to empower my dream.

So far the first of the above elements is a reality. I have been granted exclusive rights by the quarry to the best of the best material they produce. The second element above is not a problem and I have absolute confidence in this phase of the project.

But for my dream to come true the last element needs to become reality. I must find and connect with someone seeking the extraordinary, someone who will believe in me, believe in the Beaver Canyon andesite material, and take the plunge with me!

Many times I have perused Architectural Digest thinking of working with the fascinating people whose homes and craft grace its pages. In a recent issue the Calabasas, California retreat home of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith was featured. I read with great interest about this couple's proclivity to indulge their eclectic taste, placing a high value on craftsmanship and natural materials.

"This is me!" I thought. "This is right in our niche!"

I can see myself working with and for the likes of Will and Jada, as they seem like genuine and down to earth people. And having seen pictures of their get away home, they obviously have fine taste!

Perhaps a Will or Jada would value something exotically unusual -- presented by nature, crafted by human hands and inspired intent for their enjoyment. If they knew about the potential of this beautiful rock when combined with water, lighting and imagination, wouldn't they want what I am uniquely prepared to create?

Ah, dreams... we all have them. How about yours? Have you allowed yourself to imagine what could be and how you would feel were your dream to come true? Have you written out your vision and shared it with others?

Somewhere out there I will find my Will and Jada, I know it. Meanwhile I will continue to happily pursue and enjoy more modestly scaled projects -- and I welcome your interest on any level. Please contact me.