playing with stones and men ...

Last week a friend asked his friends to bring a stone and build a stoneman. None of us ever made one. But I look at pictures of stonemen almost everyday, going through flickr or land art blogs, I think they're fascinating. I just never have the time to build one. So this was an occasion to have a go at it.

First : exercising for a quarter of an hour in my garden with left over stones from paving the court yard. The wind decided it wasn't a good one, after half an hour it fell over, that was that.

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A few hours later the stoneman was build at the friends' house, and wonder ... it worked well, in a few minutes it was up. no picture here, it is a private 'monument' All the different shapes and sizes and colours fit perfectly.

So today I picked up the stones from my exercise and decided to put them in a different way and surprise, it took me two minutes to build. And hey ... a few hours later it is still standing. My first - tiny - stoneman.

OK, it is not land art yet, but I was very much inspired by all the beautiful pictures I have seen these last years, and I'm so happy I've tried it myself. Now find time to make more stonemen is a problem, but this one is definitely not my last one.
It is not building the stoneman that takes time, it is finding the right stones to build one.