I began rock carving a few years ago from zero prior experience of any kind. I have been finding Native American and Paleo era rock relics in and around my house for over a decade now, I have hundreds of items and it has inspired me deeply. One day it hit me broadside that these early humans were using only what they had to survive and here I am picking up rocks carved by people many thousands of years old that look the same as the day they were lost. I have written countless lines of code over the decades and much of that is still running to this day in past founded entities however nothing I have created prior will outlast my rock carvings.

I find the carving experience like a drug. I'm "isolated" from the external senses in wearing ear protection, eye protection, and a HEPA filter breather from the silica. In my mind I am carving away in isolation to make some shape that is whatever I set out to create via my planning and selected rock target. Instead of a keyboard which I use to make computers do whatever I want I instead have hammers, chisels, and power tools to shape a rock as I see fit. Every rock I have carved will still be the same tomorrow, next year, next century, and every coming millennium.

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