Breathing Life Into Cold Hard Stone
“He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist” St. Francis of Assisi
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I've worked as a tile and stone specialty contractor for almost 30 years in Bend Oregon.
Tile setting is itself an artistic trade, but creatively, I desired to go deeper.
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While tiling a beautiful home on the big island of Hawaii,
I was given an opportunity to cut in artistic design skills to an otherwise dull and
uninviting tile entry. -
Using available materials
such as granite,sandstone, coral beach pebbles, glass gems, mixed marvelously
together to create a fluid sea turtle floor medallion.The finished product was like breathing life into cold hard stone...