Balancing rocks is a meditative act for me. It is an exercise in visualizing positive outcomes, and then actualizing those outcomes in the real world. The ephemeral nature of the sculpture in the context of water, earth, sun, moon, and stars plays on themes of permanence. The balances are usually as precarious as they appear to be, sometimes taking an hour or more of careful adjustment before they stand. Stones range from in size from just 10 or 20 pounds to 160 pounds or more. I often gravitate towards granite, the “rock of ages.” The balances rarely last for longer than an hour, depending primarily on the wind, and all too often a stone falls before I have taken even a single photo. In this work I find myself most drawn to the coves beneath Southeast Light on Block Island, Halibut Point in Rockport, MA, Acadia National Park, and Zion.