Devine Escapes
Stone Arts by Devin Devine.
Subscribe to this channel for unique and innovative stone masonry and sculpture. Flowing stone, mutating stone, cosmic stone...this is the channel to follow in order to watch planetoids and stargates manifesting in unsuspecting garden places!
Here you will also find pragmatic and down-to-earth instruction for natural stone hardscaping and masonry projects.
Environmental artist and stone artisan Devin Devine travels the country creating stone garden sculptures, patios, benches and fountains. He's got some exciting new stuff cooking.....so you should subscribe to keep updated!
You'll also find DIY and masonry and hardscape content, and a few surprises, as Devin shares his deep love for his craft.
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What matters, is what's in your heart. What you feel. The feeling has no substance, but moves all substance, and colors the way we move such substance.
It could be one inch tall, or maybe a few feet. Might tower over the landscape, for thousands of years before eventually yielding to the dust of forgotten ages. Maybe I'll spend 20 years building it in my heart, before building it physically.
#pyramids #earthaltar #templebuilder
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Top 9 from 2023 #stoneart #sculpture #drystone #stonepath #artist #landart
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Happy Easter everybody! The world is a good place--owing, largely to you! Talking about all friends and supporters of Devine Escapes 🙂
Thank you!
The plan was to have a new egg, to show off this year. But we're too busy, and unwilling to do too many projects at one time--so we're 86-ing the new egg idea, for now!
Blue and purple Easter Easter Egg, spring 2021
#drystone #gardenart #modernsculpture #landart #stoneartist #modernsculpture #Assemblage #colorgradient #eggcairn #drystonesculpture
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Why does a man climb a mountain? Because it is there.
Why does a man build a Temple? I've built a few, but I'm not sure.
No one can say for sure very much about "God" or gods or if all of nature and all of matter is conscious--or not. But "God" is supposed to be the "highest good" that a person could strive towards.
Whatever that means to you. Love is a good one. I put a lot of that stuff into the temple, whilst building it. Creativity is a good one--God allegedly created the entire Universe--so GOD then is the source of all creativity--and/or, God simply is Creativity itself. Who then, is closer to God, than a creating artist?
Creativity, Love and Nature are pretty good things. The builder of this Temple Named it as Temple of Perspicacity, of Discernment, of Clear Sight. He built this temple for the same reason why the ancients envisioned Marduk with a ring of eyes around his head. Because they considered PAYING ATTENTION to be the most high good that human beings could aim towards.
I didn't tell you this before.......but you must have noticed that my works are often a bit sacred, a bit holy--yet without the woo woo ballyhoo. This is no set of ideals, this is flesh and blood. And there's no need for words. As a poet, it might amuse me for a moment to try and describe what I'm experiencing.....but the work comes from a place that is surrounded by aeons of silence.
Temple building, in under 2 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxUc2...
Will post a short version of this video, this afternoon. Be there!
#gnosis #perspicacity #earthtemple #dirtworshiper #drystone #landart #artisan
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I was asked, “how does one get into this field, into doing land art and stone art installations professionally? Is it possible to pursue as a hobby? Any recommendations?”
This question was posed, on a post I made about this recent land art/stone masonry sculpture installation.
I started as a laborer by day while working on my arts at night. It’s possible to do manual work all day keeping a small idea notebook in your pocket. When the boss wasn’t looking, I’d quick jot down an idea. Maybe a song, or just a line, or a plot idea for a story.
So I learn multiple trades over a decade, and then started my own business (in 2007) and began manifesting my artistic ideas through the medium of stone, using skills developed over a decade working in the trades.
My site is full of DIY ARTICLES if you want to learn the trade side of things.
If you want to get into land art/stone art, here’s my recommendations:
Go outside, handle a stone. Gaze upon the stone. See it. Hold the stone, feel it. The shape, the nuance, the millions of years that the stone has been here for. Hold it to your chest. Hum. Feel the vibration of the humming resonate the stone and your bones.
A million years later, if you still exist: handle a second stone. Or draw a picture. Pictures can be drawn with paper and pencil–or with sticks and stones.
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