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© 2000 - Text and Photographs - Stephen E. Strom
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."Henry David Thoreau
These images invite the viewer to explore patterns, both spatial and temporal, each captured in the veins of living stone. As the late essayist Ellen Meloy reminds us, these stones recorded the "geologic episodes (that) rejumbled the landscape: encroaching seas, retreating seas, sand dunes, ever-thickening fluvial floodplains, mudflats, lagoons, swamps, more sand dunes, a great wrenching apart of North America and Europe, volcanoes, more continental drift, crustal deformations, orogenies, folding, faulting, igneous bulges, uplifts, downcuts, some chilly glaciers to the north, and millions of years of weathering and erosion."