After indulging in many other mediums, the need to incorporate my life experiences, my oneness with nature through the sculpting of stone, has endowed me with the knowledge that the stone also has much to say as to how it is manipulated.

That is really the case with all mediums, yet stone has energy and very definite strengths of characteristics that I find most challenging.

In finding its weaknesses, ridding the piece of its "infirmities", permits me to see what it has in mind and must become. It is the working of two minds, that culminate into a work to be enjoyed in depth of spirit, by form.

Sculpting presents a great challenge in finding out what each piece is all about internally. I have never been so content with the outcome, as I have been in finding out about my true destiny in the search for a medium.

Mary Hetrick-Vecchio