PEBBLES
The first artistic act is to walk along the beach and pick the right pebble...
I believe that stone is not a dead material but animated, though at a very slow pace. When working with a pebble, I have respect for the enormous length of time it took for the rock to form and then to be shaped by the elements.
A natural hole in a pebble is intriguing, though not unusual. I am interested in the contrast between the natural form and the perfectly round hole.