Post #319212 by prairie jade on Tue, Jul 17, 2007 7:59 AM

thanks tama-i found this site through my studies of jade carvers-i decided you were the carver best developing the tiki motif and your work led me here.maori culture in general has been a large influence on how i choose to live.my house is covered in brightly painted wooden sculptures. yes i am numbakulla and about 200 other personnaes i adopt during my various art endevors. i feel guilty masquerading as a carver when i'm such a newbie. i spent 40 years so far making jewelry, and have shown over 2000 of my paintings. i've collected rocks for over 50 years. since i live in limestone i've collected, stacked and carved over 2 million pounds-organized into gardens waterfalls and ponds. i need to photograph my feeble attempts at hard stone carving - but here are some pics of my limestone carvings