To put my fantasies on solid footing, something more was needed.
I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired.
Put another way, I had to make a confession of faith in stone.
That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen.
C.G. Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Page 212
The urge to work with stone comes from a deeply irrational place; it has a been a bit of a puzzle to me why I have been so consistently drawn to working on the Stone Sanctuary for the last years.
In the next posts, I hope to explore the symbolism of stones and the psychological process of working with stones.
The work above is the work at the entrance to the Stone Sanctuary, completed in the fall of 2014.
It is “dry-stone walling” — there is no mortar used in the construction of the wall, as are most of the structures in the Sanctuary.
