It seems that the speed in which update this blog is akin to the speed of the rocks I stack, and it feels like I am indeed gathering moss and need to get rolling again.
Over the last few months a few great experiences have helped with my stacking life, the first being able to display some of my work at the 2009 Toronto Home & Garden show. While I only had 3 stacks on display, one large and two small, they attracted a fair amount of attention. These were my first stacks in which I drilled and braced together for a 'permanent' display. Of course, whatever attention I received was but a speck compared to the Daryl Maddeaux, the 'father' of stacking here in Toronto.
I was ever so lucky to be able to speak with Daryl and he even offered some stacking tips and tricks. Meeting him has been a great inspiration and has done much to banish the doubt one has of doing stacking as legitimate work, which brings me to my next event.
About a month after the show I was contacted via my website,
stonearth.ca, by my first client whom wishes for me to create several stacks for her. I won't say much at this point but the feeling is rather surreal to have an actual job come from this, something that would have never crossed my mind as a possibility when I first started doing this in the parks for fun.
Tonight's rock stacking done during Toronto's fourth annual Scotiabank Nuit Blanche was a huge hit with the crowd. Thanks to Sun Jye and Adam, the great rock balancers of Toronto, for letting them join me for the night.
