wonderful. the cnadian in me loves seeing these along the highway and lake.

Incredibly beautiful..... you have a wonderful eye.

stunning - these are so much more spiritual to me than anything I would see or feel in a church.

There's a tradition of building these things on Gloucester Island, off Massachusetts. (Well, it's only around eighty feet off, but Gloucester is an island.) I once promised myself to spend some time photographing them....but I never got around to it. Gloucester's a thousand miles away now, and I don't know if or whether I will ever get back there again.

eeeewwwwhhhhh...aaaahhhhh. just like watching the fireworks. i kept saying this one is my favorite. but then the next one was. lovely surprises for such a consistent theme. R

Lovely photo essay! Each one confromed to the human figure proportions, with foot, middle and top.

Algis, this is a remarkable series of stone figures! Thanks for posting it here on OS.

there is a indiginus name for these that has escaped my ancient mind.
what is it?
it stats with an I?

it came back: inukshuk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk

I truly enjoyed your work! It reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy. I think it is very brave to create a work that is not permanent. I get so attached to mine it would be hard to leave them! But you do have these lovely photos, some captured in remarkable light!

These are so great! Very envious... Sarah

Fabulous!

Good Work!! Thanks for recording them and sharing.

Stunning, as always. Wish we had gotten together over the years --many times guidebooks were searching for great photographers to complement the words.

Wow! I love this!! And I can feel the impulse to create with the elements!! Gorgeous!! (And so much more noble, I thought in looking, than some of the images we create in modern media...)

These are really very moving and beautiful. rated.

wonderful. the cnadian in me loves seeing these along the highway and lake.

Dear wschanz,

Thanks for the comment. I like to place these so that people driving by see them as well against a striking backdrop.

best Algis


Incredibly beautiful..... you have a wonderful eye.

Dear rita shibr,

Thanks so very much Rita. One day hopefully you see some of mine in real time and place.

Best Algis

stunning - these are so much more spiritual to me than anything I would see or feel in a church.

Dear mamoore,

Right on Mamoore. I use an idea from the book Celestine Prophesy that when you find a wonderful place and the rock calls out to you, that this is the place that makes the most sense to build one.

Cheers Algis

There's a tradition of building these things on Gloucester Island, off Massachusetts. (Well, it's only around eighty feet off, but Gloucester is an island.) I once promised myself to spend some time photographing them....but I never got around to it. Gloucester's a thousand miles away now, and I don't know if or whether I will ever get back there again.

Dear sagemerlin,

I am so glad that these triggered the memories that now illustrate your old desirers. I am glad also for the tip as where to go and find others like this as well. On my mothers side I am a Kirk which means Church and my first memories as a child were of finding Cemeteries that excited me to no end. Later I realized I had a love of stone and placement and the ancient message in my genes led me to start making these where I thought something special was happening.

Thanks again for GI

Best Regards
Algis

eeeewwwwhhhhh...aaaahhhhh. just like watching the fireworks. i kept saying this one is my favorite. but then the next one was. lovely surprises for such a consistent theme. R

Dear Patty Jane Maher,

Thanks for the nice comment! I feel the fireworks myself now that you mentioned it.

Best regards
Algis

Lovely photo essay! Each one confromed to the human figure proportions, with foot, middle and top.

Dear Gary Justis,

Thanks and I am glad you pointed that out!

Best regards
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 12:32 PM
Algis, this is a remarkable series of stone figures! Thanks for posting it here on OS.

Dear designanator,

Thanks so much for this comment. It's my pleasure to post here.

Cheers
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 12:36 PM
there is a indiginus name for these that has escaped my ancient mind.
what is it?
it stats with an I?

wschanz
MARCH 01, 2010 12:42 PM
it came back: inukshuk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inukshuk

Dear wschanz,

Indeed these have been influenced by the inukshuk. Although those sculpture actually tell a lot of messages about who was there and what they did from what I understand about them. They were also to act as a human figure to steer the reindeer or caribou from what I understand. Thanks for that link.

best regards
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 12:48 PM

I truly enjoyed your work! It reminds me of Andy Goldsworthy. I think it is very brave to create a work that is not permanent. I get so attached to mine it would be hard to leave them! But you do have these lovely photos, some captured in remarkable light!

Dear Anne Cameron Cutri,

Thanks for commenting and leaving a nice message. I hope one day we could collaborate on some...

Cheers
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 02:05 PM
These are so great! Very envious... Sarah

Dear Sarah Eccleston,

Thanks for making my day and more.

best
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 03:05 PM
Fabulous!

Dear Scarlett Sumac,

Your fabulous too for commenting here. Thanks!

Cheers
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 05:24 PM
Good Work!! Thanks for recording them and sharing.

Dear zanelle,

Thanks so much! Wish I had made more here now!

Best regards
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 05:57 PM

Stunning, as always. Wish we had gotten together over the years --many times guidebooks were searching for great photographers to complement the words.

Dear Lea Lane,

Your wonderful words make my day more promising. Maybe one day !

best regards
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 07:27 PM

Wow! I love this!! And I can feel the impulse to create with the elements!! Gorgeous!! (And so much more noble, I thought in looking, than some of the images we create in modern media...)

Dear JulieShanti,

Really appreciate your fine comment. Thanks for commenting.

best regards
Algis
MARCH 01, 2010 10:34 PM
These are really very moving and beautiful. rated.

Dear Caroline Hagood,

Thanks for the moving words and more.

Cheers plus
Algis

I like the rock sculptures. I have made cairns when I hike but never thought of them in this way. Many look like people.

Algis, these are mindblowingly beautiful photographs. You are amazing. Then to get to the end and find that you are the sculptor of all--I thought they were found on your travels. I am in awe of you. In fact, I think I'm now half in love. **swoons, blushes, runs away**

I like the rock sculptures. I have made cairns when I hike but never thought of them in this way. Many look like people.

Dear Joan K,

Thanks for commenting and connecting. When I make these I usually ask the stone to reveal something more to me as I spontaneously build these. Afterwards the pleasure is in seeing more in the photograph than I originally anticipated. Try it sometime. it really works.

Best Regards
Algis


Algis, these are mindblowingly beautiful photographs. You are amazing. Then to get to the end and find that you are the sculptor of all--I thought they were found on your travels. I am in awe of you. In fact, I think I'm now half in love. **swoons, blushes, runs away**

Dear The Good Daughter,

Thanks for the heart felt comment. I am blushing now too!
Best Regards

Algis

This is grand and wonderful. Thank you.
Rated.

These are stunning and the photography is great as well here.
I like all of them.
Thanks so much for the message. I am happy to see this.

Incredible! All of it ... the sculpture, the feat, the photography, the composition ... incredible, Algis. What a wonderful aspect too that they are not cemented but left to the elements.

wow. how did you ever find all these? i'd be awestruck and speechless if i bumped into just one, which I'm pretty sure we don't have any in NJ. amazing work -- the artists and your capturing of it. so spiritual, peaceful.

These are incredibly beautiful.

This is a great way to wake up to ... thank you for sharing this!! R

Thanks, this made my day.

Again Algis, another expression of beauty and introspect. You never cease to amaze me..in many ways. Love you friend

As always, stunning images.

These are simply stunning images.

So poetic.
:o)
James

These are really magnificent! I'ts hard to believe you can do these yourself, they really seem to be ageless. You are indeed an artist!

WOW!
It would be even more awesome if you gave a caption to each pic stating where it was.
How did you get the red stone in the very last picture to stand up? And where did you even find a red stone? Is it painted?

I love these...the sculpture which is an expression of you contemplating these beautiful views, which are expressions of...I don't know...something greater.

awesome! will need some photo advice from you once i take out my camera from the closet.

This is grand and wonderful. Thank you.
Rated.

Dear Thoth,

Thanks for your grand comment.

Best
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 06:09 AM
These are stunning and the photography is great as well here.
I like all of them.
Thanks so much for the message. I am happy to see this.

Dear Mission,

Thanks ever so much. My mission was to see if your mission would be to look at these, and u did.

best
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 06:20 AM
Incredible! All of it ... the sculpture, the feat, the photography, the composition ... incredible, Algis. What a wonderful aspect too that they are not cemented but left to the elements.

Dear Little Kate,

Thanks for the incredible comment and liking my uncemented technique.

best regards
Algis

MARCH 04, 2010 06:30 AM
wow. how did you ever find all these? i'd be awestruck and speechless if i bumped into just one, which I'm pretty sure we don't have any in NJ. amazing work -- the artists and your capturing of it. so spiritual, peaceful.

Dear cindy capitani,

Thanks for the amazing comment. I did not find these but built them to inspire the Muse on Crete or at least this one was made on Crete.
Glad they inspired you so.

best regards
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 06:37 AM
These are incredibly beautiful.

Dear sophieh,

Wow thanks you made my day just that much better.

best ever
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 08:12 AM
This is a great way to wake up to ... thank you for sharing this!! R

Dear rebelmom,

Oh this is wonderful for both me and you. Thanks for having a great wake up show.

best

algis

Thanks, this made my day.

Dear OEsheepdog,

Boy am I glad I did. Thanks for commenting.
best
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 09:36 AM
Again Algis, another expression of beauty and introspect. You never cease to amaze me..in many ways. Love you friend

Dear ThroughMyEyes,

WoW ! Your going to be my best OS friend...r you ready ?
thanks again.

best always
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 09:37 AM
As always, stunning images.

Dear Owl_Says_Who,

Thanks for the stunning comment.
Your Pal
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 10:23 AM
These are simply stunning images.

Dear cartouche,

And your stunning comment has made a cloudy day here bright.

Thanks again and again.

algis

MARCH 04, 2010 10:31 AM
So poetic.
:o)
James

Dear gaypersonsofcolor,

Coming from you I am heart felt appreciative.

best

algis

MARCH 04, 2010 11:19 AM
These are really magnificent! I'ts hard to believe you can do these yourself, they really seem to be ageless. You are indeed an artist!

Dear scanner,

Your magnificent comment has made me smile ear to ear do you hear. Thanks for touching down. Yes I do these all by myself and the Muse that I am after to influence sometimes gives me super human strength to lift these rocks out and about.

Best ever
Algis

MARCH 04, 2010 01:16 PM
WOW!
It would be even more awesome if you gave a caption to each pic stating where it was.
How did you get the red stone in the very last picture to stand up? And where did you even find a red stone? Is it painted?

Dear JOY MARS,

I have been making these images on Crete, Rhodes and in Turkey these last 6 months. I do it for the Muse and hope for something wonderful like a comment from you. The red stone was a brick that got well rounded in the surf and the bottom stone had just enough of a dip in it for it to sit there nicely.
Thanks again and again.
Algis

MARCH 04, 2010 02:29 PM
I love these...the sculpture which is an expression of you contemplating these beautiful views, which are expressions of...I don't know...something greater.

Dear Nikki Stern,

The influence for these comes to me genetically because I am a Kirk on my mothers side and ancient churches were places where rocks were put. Nextly Canadian Inustituk sculptures have also influenced me. Plus I have loved and Graveyards since I was about 4 years old. This is also Influenced by The Celestine Prophecy and the meaning of beautiful view Kalithea in Greek which also almost Goddess. So when a place speaks to me and the stones call out I assemble these and usually find something more than I originally intended.

Thanks again and agian.

best
algis

MARCH 04, 2010 02:38 PM
awesome! will need some photo advice from you once i take out my camera from the closet.

Dear L. London Wang,

Thanks and anytime you need photographic advice I am waiting.

best
Algis

Stunning. So many beauties here, but the one with the rainbow--ahhhhhhhhh!

Talk about the transformative aspects of art. You animate the inert as you invest the rocks with warmth and meaningfulness unavailable to the casual observer. You have managed to equal your treatment of the human with your insight into nature.

You can comment in pun, and you build these? Make me a believer--no cement, you confirmed, and not too much Photoshop, please? And I'm in "the good daughter" 's camp, half-in-love ;)
I also watched one of your films, with the Indians covered in ash, and you revisiting them to come to terms with life/mortality. Much preferable to Tim Burton. (r)

You have an amazing sense of balance, proportion and a stoned sense of humor. It's fun that you leave these behind as you go. Nice job.

Stunning. So many beauties here, but the one with the rainbow--ahhhhhhhhh!

Dear AtHomePilgrim,

Thanks for sharing your comments and favorite image. Your words are music to my ears.

best
Algis

MARCH 05, 2010 05:47 AM
Talk about the transformative aspects of art. You animate the inert as you invest the rocks with warmth and meaningfulness unavailable to the casual observer. You have managed to equal your treatment of the human with your insight into nature.

Dear amdad44,

If words were gold I would be rich. Your indeed a poet and don't know it! Or do you ?

best ever
Algis


You can comment in pun, and you build these? Make me a believer--no cement, you confirmed, and not too much Photoshop, please? And I'm in "the good daughter" 's camp, half-in-love ;)
I also watched one of your films, with the Indians covered in ash, and you revisiting them to come to terms with life/mortality. Much preferable to Tim Burton. (r)

Dear dirndl skirt,

Yes to all of the above and no photoshop because I don't have that program. Maybe a little tweaking of the hues but not much else. Glad you enjoyed and the Tim Burton comment is priceless...
Thanks ever so much

Algis

You have an amazing sense of balance, proportion and a stoned sense of humor. It's fun that you leave these behind as you go. Nice job.

Dear Jeff Howe,

Thanks for dropping by and commenting. I do try my best and thanks for finding them amusing.

best regards
Algis
MARCH 05, 2010 09:34 PM

Lovely, and mysterious.

Still Love this, with the additions this time! Maybe especially that one, so large opposite the silhouette of the real man... All, nice for contemplation! Thanks, Algis!!

Wow.

Thank you for sharing.

These are amazing!

these are amazing

Lovely, and mysterious.

Dear Linda Shiue,

Great I was hoping they would have some mystery and you answered my question.

MARCH 06, 2010 02:59 AM
Still Love this, with the additions this time! Maybe especially that one, so large opposite the silhouette of the real man... All, nice for contemplation! Thanks, Algis!!

Dear JulieShanti,

Thanks for dropping by. The large one isn't that large really but the POV makes it that way.

MARCH 06, 2010 06:56 PM
Wow.

Thank you for sharing.

Dear Tinkerertink69,

It's indeed my pleasure. Thanks for commenting.

MARCH 07, 2010 07:22 PM
These are amazing!

Dear , Dear reader I married him
And you are too for leaving a comment.

MARCH 08, 2010 07:27 AM
Oh my gosh - I love this post! All my life I have collected stones and had my friends and family bring back stones for me from their travels. I have stacks of stones all over the place and I have a cairn in the back yard. There is just something about holding a stone in your hands and feeling its weight and energy and then putting it together with other stones to make something original. I especially like heart shaped rocks and I am always thrilled to find one. Sometimes when there is a special occasion or something meaningful has happened to me or maybe I have just had an epiphany, I will look around and almost always find a heart-shaped rock to commemorate the day. I like the idea that I have that that 'ancient message in my genes'...that explains it!!! We are kindred spirits. thank you thank you thank you and rated

Dear lumina59,

We must be kindred spirits. I really am encoraged by this comment. Thanks for posting !

MARCH 08, 2010 09:44 AM
Amazing. Very cool. rated.

Dear, New Buddha Fun

Thanks a million or two.

MARCH 08, 2010 03:52 PM
these are amazing

Dear,Risa Denenberg
And so are you for posting a comment.

All my fondest regards to everyone who commented here. Thanks again three million times !!!

Algis

These are so beautiful. I felt the wonder of a child as I looked at them and wished that I was there to see them in person.

Cool, these are in Iceland too, near the sea.