Interactions
As one man who I met that day said, everyone who visits the wood gravitates towards the stream and this day was no exception.
Paths run either side, so sometimes I'm not even aware that someone's there until I look up from what I'm doing.
Given that they probably don't often see a man there in his wellies doing strange things with rocks, I guess it does make them (and their dogs) curious.
This particular work, one heavy upright stone balanced point down in the stream bed with a rock arch to the bank and a simple arrangement of 10 or so other stones balanced on their ends around it got quite a bit of attention.
One man asked "what are you doing man?"
"Playing" I replied.
Three woman were a little grumpy that what were once stepping stones were now upright, but mostly people were very complimentary and politely asked if they could take photos.
One man told me proudly of his work with numerology and a young couple congratulated me on my work, the woman saying that she was going to post images of it all over social media that night. I'd moved downstream by that point and was working on another balance.
The late afternoon sunshine was a nice touch, particularly on these very short days.
~ alignments ~ (thanks to my nephew Dylan for the song choice)
Interactions
As one man who I met that day said, everyone who visits the wood gravitates towards the stream and this day was no exception.
Paths run either side, so sometimes I'm not even aware that someone's there until I look up from what I'm doing.
Given that they probably don't often see a man there in his wellies doing strange things with rocks, I guess it does make them (and their dogs) curious.
This particular work, one heavy upright stone balanced point down in the stream bed with a rock arch to the bank and a simple arrangement of 10 or so other stones balanced on their ends around it got quite a bit of attention.
One man asked "what are you doing man?"
"Playing" I replied.
Three woman were a little grumpy that what were once stepping stones were now upright, but mostly people were very complimentary and politely asked if they could take photos.
One man told me proudly of his work with numerology and a young couple congratulated me on my work, the woman saying that she was going to post images of it all over social media that night. I'd moved downstream by that point and was working on another balance.
The late afternoon sunshine was a nice touch, particularly on these very short days.
~ alignments ~ (thanks to my nephew Dylan for the song choice)