David Therriault Stone Design
Stone birdbaths and garden sculpture
featured at Alden Farms, Beallsville, MD 301.972.7183

Artist's Statement

I do not collect stones from nature for those stones have avoided man’s improvements for centuries. We would do well to just visit those stones and see them for what they are: the soul of the earth, something that our manipulations cannot improve. Let them whisper; it’s what they do.

I find stones that have been stolen, asked to change, ripped, chopped, moved, and piled for consumption. I try to tell their stories which always end the same way: the sand turned to glass, the iron to liquid. All return to the rock they began with and all form the silent whisper of a soul unchangeable.

That said, really I just like to bang on rocks and it gives people something to say that I do for a living.

David Therriault