a slight setback

Last Saturday I fell off a ladder...or more precisely, the ladder fell out from under me.  Stupid mistake middle age guys make all the time.  Cleaning gutters.  Ladder was set on a slippery deck, no one spotting me at the bottom.

I get near the roof and notice the ladder slipping out from under me.  Wiley Coyote moment mid-air, thinking 'this can't be happening', then nothing.

Awaken minutes later with my son standing over me saying 'Dad, don't move...'

Couldn't if I wanted...so much pain.  Sirens wailing in the distance, getting closer.

Medics check me out, strap me to the gurney.  Then off to Harborview where I'll be slid from one CAT scan and x-ray machine to the next over the next several hours.

Finally, after 14 hours in the ER, they release me with a fractured clavicle, 5 broken ribs and a load of oxycodone.

tracing for engraver

Each image requires an accurate trace as an EPS file so the engraver can reproduce a realistic fossil on the stone.  It's a painstaking process but will result in a naturalistic effect...

fossils: telling an evolutionary story in stone

Through careful selection of 4 iconic moments of the evolution of life on earth, I want to create story with fossils and spatial relationships.  Placement of each fossil within the series and location within the park provides the viewer some sense of scale of geologic time. 

Starting with the Cenozoic and working back to the Precambrian, these calcified records provide clues about adaptation and climate change that place our extremely brief Anthropocenic period in stark contrast. 

trilobite

reptile

bird

vendian protist

7 stones cut layout