Sculpture and Peter Andrusko

Everybody want to be a artist...
-but few are willing to put in the work.


Peter Andrusko sent me these photos of a marble cornice he's carving.

We know that musicians practice scales.
Did you know that stone sculptors do stone scales?
Up and down the acanthus leaves.

There is no safety net,
if that edge breaks it's begin again.


I know the photos aren't good, taken in dim studio light,
but it is amazing to see his craftsmanship.

In the photo below you can see the template to register the pattern
on top of the right cornice, and reading from right to left
you can follow his progress, from drawn pattern on fresh stone, the leaves roughed out, to completed leaves.

Sculpture and Dance- Weightless by Erika Janunger

The willing suspension of disbelief. A beautiful dance by Erika Janunger who also sings and designed the set.

Click on the title to see the video. Sorry but the new Blogger has somehow cropped the video. You're only seeing 3/4 of the video...;



A short dance/architectural movie, about defying gravity.

In bedroom Malin Stattin
In livingroom Tuva Lundkvist

Directed byErika Janunger
Scenography Erika Janunger
Photography and lightDavid Grehn
Costume Johanna Adebäck
Hair and Makeup Klara Janunger
Editing Josefine Truedsson
Postproduction Gustaf Holmsten

Music/ Lyrics-
and Vocals Erika Janunger
PercussionPontus Langendorf
Keyharp Erik Rydvall
Saxophones Nis Bäckvall
Produced by Henrik Svensson

Sculpture and Handerpants

Having blistered and cut my hands countless times on projects and never found a pair of gloves that I really love, I'm willing to consider this product..... but only for laughs.I do like that they recognize Architects and Stone Masons.
Ladies and Gentlemen I give you "Handerpants".

Are they serious? or will irony be the death of us all?

Sculpture and the Furuya Building

It's very difficult to be historically accurate if nobody is willing to do (or PAY for) the research.

An ancient grainy black and white photo and three scribbles were all the "research" I had. I wrote about the dilemma of sculpture and historic restoration here.

This called for educated forensic guessing. Pages of drawings with the deadline passing... In cases like this, the best thing is to just begin sculpting. The model was made in foam. I carved it to have the requsite sandstone look, lots of texture and popped edges. Foam is nasty, scratchy, the fine gritty dust sticks to everyting. I hate working in foam.




Other hands had at the art after I signed off on it, turning what I intended as a shield like shape,(to balance the companion piece) into what looks like a toilet seat.. Sigh, it's on the right.



Here's how the project turned out. After all the worries, it looks great.





The ironic part is this restoration is now the "Historic" version.

Sculpture and Gotye's "Heart's a Mess"

It's been some time since we had any animation on Shadows on Stone. Here's Gotye's "Hearts A Mess." More on singer/songwriter Gotye here.

I love the moody evocative landscape, very "Petit Prince", with a large dash of Tim Burton on characters and mood. The spooky, dream-like figures were created by animator and director Brendan Cook.

Sculpture and MIMEtoLITHS

Multi-media artist conjures up computers and film and conceptual work. Algis Kemezys is a Montreal, Canada based multimedia artist whose media includes the oldest material on earth, stone. He has created numerous stackings he calls Self-Portraits in Stone.

Stacking stone is one of the oldest artistic expressions and still one of the most satisfying. From trail markers to grave cairns, stone is always environmentally sound and site specific. Working directly with available stone speaks directly to our atavistic origins. Algis says "Rock can certainly call out to you and when responding to this the message the results of working with it are magical."


All photos by Kemezys

Kemezys writes, "For me, the idea is an amalgam of sculpture and nature. Whenever I find an inspiring view I compose and build a complementary stone sculpture and photograph it. It becomes a part of me that I leave behind, but just like myself the artifact is impermanent. I use no cementing material and so my sculptures are ephemeral, succumbing to the elements and soon enough crumble to become again part of the landscape.

Most of these sculptures were made in Greece on the island of Crete and on the island of Rhodes. A few were made in southern Turkey as well."

His blog is MIMEtoLITHS
The movie he made of the stone sculptures is available on Amazon.
View the trailer here.

Sculpture and Greeting Card Designer

Kate Harper of Greeting Card Designer asked "Why does an artist need a blog?"

My response is featured as part of her Social Media Month



Mad dogs and Irishmen out in the noon day sun, drawing horse shoe crabs on an offshore island, Cape Cod.