“The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.”

~ Andre Breton

An important part of why I enjoy playing with rocks is that it naturally encourages “play”.  Many of the more surreal looking balances result from playing and experimenting with various points of contact.  With experience has also come intuition for what sizes and shapes of rocks I choose to combine.  One of the elements I like to incorporate into most balances is a sense of tension through surrealism. More tension usually challenges my ability further, and is often more contemplative to realize, for me at least.  I love making these things sooo much! ha. :D

“The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.”

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

I love how these rocks compliment each other in this arrangement.. simple elegance. :) gotta love the deep reds in many

Many people ask “how many rocks?” or “how high can you balance?” as if that was the most accurate measure of difficulty. These aspects do have a correlation with difficulty, but are strictly left brain methods to quantify that which is abstract. In my experience, technical difficulty better correlates with the “tension” that the piece incorporates and radiates overall. Things that increase tension are counterbalancing and point balancing to name a couple.