Will you just look at what I fondled this weekend . . .
It's not a small, irregular shaped painting
It's a piece of Pietra Paesina, or landscape marble or ruins stone. (Good old Wikipedia has some things to
say). It's a stone that occurs naturally in Northern Italy. It has no specific mines, just occurs very rarely in seemingly random places.
This is a nice website of two Italian men who've devoted their lives to it - the image gallery is worth a look.
It's very beautiful: these pieces have a horizon and beautiful delicately coloured clouds - it's so hard to believe it's naturally occurring.
This piece is quite space age. A monitoring station in a lunar crater maybe.
Researching this very special stone took me on a nice trip around the internet where I discovered
this fine blog. And also this incredible archive: The
Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones.
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