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StoneBale

StoneBale: An Iconic Sculpture

The StoneBale realizes the proposal made in my 1984 landscape architecture master’s thesis ‘Environmental Design in Stone: An Archetypal Landscape in Southern New England’ that new and original stone structures can be used in abstracted and archetypal landscapes to render the patterns of land use in New England visible.

The idea for this proposition originated on a trip abroad in 1982 to study the dry-stone gardens of Japan, which had a great effect on me. Using lessons from those gardens, the StoneBale is both an object and a process in the landscape, capturing regional geologic forces and enduring cultural practices in an iconic landscape form. It celebrates rolled hay, but suggests a glacial erratic.

The StoneBale confirms the vitality and continuing relevance of the premise of my 1984 thesis. Just as the remnant stone structures still found in the New England forests serve to reminds us of past activity, the StoneBale will exist as a hand-crafted monument to our time. I imagine it as a stone monolith discovered in the trees.

DetaIls:

The StoneBale is 8’ high by 5’ wide and is composed of dry-laid sedimentary bluestone stacked with an overlapping pattern for stability. The joints have been expertly detailed and carved by the stone masons of Full Circle Stone Works .

I have applied for a trademark on the name and a copyright on the concept.

The detailed work of Full Circle Stone Works made the StoneBale look just like the life-like computer rendering of Tangram3DS.

To visit the StoneBale go to 141 Roberts Road in Rollinsford, NH on Google Maps.

Terrence Parker, Landscape Architect

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