Stone is ancestral and male...

From a National Geographic article on Stonehenge, "In Malagasy culture the ancestors are revered with stone monuments, signifying the hardening of the bodies to bone and the enduring commemoration of death; wood, by contrast, which decays, is associated with transient life. Stone is ancestral and male, while wood,as Parker Pearson... put it, 'is soft and squishy, like women and babies.'" This makes me think a lot about my work, how it will last for millennia. I guess a lot of my work does say "ancestral and male"...! DISCUSS...

Green Zebra Jasper! (not a jasper!)

A new material out of Brazil and I haven't seen ANY other lapidaries cutting this stuff! It's a green serpentine with vibrant white veins of chatoyant (cats eye) stripes! The few Chinese dealers selling it call it Green Zebra Jasper, but it's NOT a jasper. Very beautiful and unusual, but it's soft, so don't bang it ...around against hard surfaces. Cuts and polishes like butter!

Check out the listing in my eBay store GREEN ZEBRA TIGEREYE STONE!