After almost a year of work, I finished this large piece title “Imperfections”. The transformation of the stone involved removing the entire outer surface inch by inch with an electric Dremel. There is no shortcut way to do this other than one small section at a time. Moving and turning the stone without large scale equipment required the use of logs, straw bails, a car jack, and a hand winch. I used a gas-powered industrial coring device with a two-foot coring bit to drill a hole 20 inches deep into the bottom of the stone. The stone is “set” on a five foot steel rod that goes through the center of a three foot square steel plate. The entire base is mounted in eighteen cubic feet of concrete. Installing the stone required a crane mounted on the back of a large truck.
