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| This is the view as a person walked down the street. The masonry of the garage uses the same stone as the bedrock. | 2011-06-21 10:59:48 |
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| The petroglyph as I prepare to leave Berkeley for parts unknown. | 2011-06-20 22:59:21 |
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| Two people together sailing a boat. | 2011-06-20 12:27:26 |
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| This photo shows the Spaceman in his natural orientation, upside down. How does one describe that he is beyond the gravity that we earthlings take so much for granted? | 2011-06-19 22:48:31 |
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| This shows the International Space Station as it was some years ago. Its structure is much more complex with more than eight times as many solar panels now. | 2011-06-19 22:38:39 |
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| I brought along my gold leaf thinking I'd try guilding the scientific instruments that are, in reality, encased in non-oxidizing metalic foil. This is the second gilded petroglyph, the first is the Chandra Xray Observatory in Ingomar, MT | 2011-06-19 21:14:48 |
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| The composition for this petroglyph used two intersecting triangle to ground and balance the composition. This sailboat serves as the apex of the lower triangle. Interestingly, it is a consistent favorite. | 2011-06-19 21:08:50 |
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| One crosses the BART as one descends from the Berkeley Hills to the Bay. | 2011-06-18 20:13:11 |
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| This is one of my favorite carvings. The complexity of the space, the two figures, and the American flag make it work. | 2011-06-18 20:07:25 |
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| This was the first image on the lower half of the petroglyph that I carved. The stone has varying tensile strengths which made it hard to carve. It seems where the water flows, the stone turns almost to clay. | 2011-06-18 19:58:10 |
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| The existing shape of the stone was complicated, so the perspective of the images changes depending on where one stands. | 2011-06-18 14:44:18 |
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| From this site you can see these imagesin this perspective. Bart train, Berkeley Marina,n the Port of Oakland, and container ships on the San Francisco Bay, with planes from SFO taking off. | 2011-06-18 14:13:56 |
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| This is the bottom half of the frieze. Top middle is Gemini capsule. Charcoal of the garbage truck requested by my hostess. | 2011-05-10 21:16:17 |
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| Top left one can see the texture of the grinder. | 2011-04-12 17:48:16 |
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| I carved Hubble first, then ISS, then moved to the lower panel, and finally carved the spaceman. | 2010-05-10 21:29:06 |
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