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of the American West

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 Welcome!     Please enjoy our celebration of native stone and paleo-geology 
 
 
 

Petrified Wood - It was a tree and now it's a rock transformed into polished limbs and pedestals and pendants -- selected for their tree-like characteristics . . .  
  
 
 
 
 
Embedded barite crystal recalls the flower designs of Georgia O'Keefe
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Picture Stone - small scenic panoramas of the western land- scape are hidden in these rocks
 
Do you see mountains, deserts, and skies in these jaspers?
 

Owyhee jasper showcases a contemplative mountain scene familiar to traditional Japanese landscape art

 

 


Septarian - ancient mud balls full of surprises
  
       22 pound polished half-geode with crystalized cavity
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14" X 10" slab with window 

 

Variscite - a cousin of turquoise, here suggesting a  planetscape where grey archepelagoes of crandalite trail through green waters

 
 
 
 
 
 

Morrisonite - brecciated segments in the stone echo earth tectonics and spacial cubist reconstructions
 
 

Tiffany Stone -extravagant pinks and purples, some recalling the black ink composition of Chinese drawings
 
 
 
 
Red Horn Coral  - brilliant color and delicate articulation
 
                                         Turretella - gastropods  
                                                    locked in agate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trilobites - older than the dinosaurs
 
 
 
  
Dinosaur Bone - Jurassic fossils identified by their agatized  cell
structure reminding us of patterned mosaics
  
   
We hunt and select rough rock for aesthetic attributes of color, pattern, and geological imprint and then: 

 

-  Reveal remarkable images in the rough

 

-  Create one-of-a-kind geological treasures --

   pocket pieces, rounds, limbs --  and fine

   artisan jewelry

 

 
Our work recalls the earth history of North America . . . Cambrian oceans, Jurassic swamps, volcanic eruptions, and eroding sand seas.


 
 
 
. . . and crosscut rounds that show cambia (bark), pith, and growth rings...
 
12' X 10" Chinle Formation wood with barite
  
 Wonderful bark-like cambia on segmented limb

Dugway Geodes  - selected for gem-filled cavities; polished to highlight fancy agate
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Bolo Ties - Cowboy formal attire using picturesque Cripple Creek and Picasso Marbles jaspers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picasso Marble - lines reminiscent of the artist's Cubist work or winter forests

 

 

 


 

Wonderstone - dramatic eye shapes and banding


Polish Flint - from a prehistory site in Poland, shaped to reveal  fluid patterns and dynamic swirling movement like that of classic Venetian blown glass

 

 


 

 

Lace Agate - exotic patterns and striking colors

 


Mookaite -mimics the colors and shapes of 1950s abstract expressionism

 

Bronze-Infused Turquoise and Obsidian - stabilized, brillant stone
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Snowflake Obsidian - lovely products of volcanic activity