IMAGE WITHIN THE STONE
Through the Window
Where microscopic formations become original works of art.
Through the window is the first collection in a series of collections from the masterwork piece titled The Chamber consisting of handcrafted paintings created by the owner of Spirit, Wood & Stone, from Microscopic images within the Chesapeake Bay Shocked Quartz. Each piece of art is hand crafted on canvas or wood using oil and acrylic paints.
Through the Window consists of 6 works of art beginning with The Keeper and followed by The Messengers Assistant, Neither Exists Alone, The Angel, The Crown, and Karma. These paintings are pieces from The Chamber.
Through the Window
The Messenger's Assistant
Emerging from within the underlying structure of passage, this piece explores the early formation of identity—where internal awareness, external influence, and hidden aspects begin to take shape. The Messenger’s partially revealed face rests in stillness, encompassing images of its messages. Rotate the painting and the Messenger reveals another aspect of itself, along with more of its messages. What you see changes each time you look. A traveling figure becomes something larger and more ancient, containing smaller forms within it. This duality reflects a state of passage, where movement between realms alters not only direction, but form itself. As the second work in the series, this piece captures the moment when the Keeper begins to allow the viewer to not only see, but read the story.
Original Artwork — $95
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The Crown
Original Painting In Progress
COMING SOON
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Karma
Original Painting In Progress
Coming soon.
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Neither Exists Alone
A fracture of light reveals what lies beyond—not as a separation, but as a moment of recognition. What appears illuminated is defined by what stands beside it, and what emerges from darkness is not hidden within it, but formed through it.
Within the composition, symbols of access and awareness take shape. A heart-formed key, composed of emotion and memory, meets a bound structure whose purpose depends not on opposition, but on relationship. Surrounding forms—watchers, crowned figures, and living shadows—exist not as contrasts, but as participants in a shared state of being. From this convergence, form begins to emerge. A presence takes shape through both light and darkness, neither overcoming the other, but revealed because of it. This piece invites a shift in perception—where light and dark are not separate forces, but part of the same source. Each defines the other. Neither exists alone.
Original Artwork — $1150
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The Angel
I call this painting “The Angel.” As I painted, the image came to life, portraying an angelic guardian figure beside a child, with distant observers witnessing a moment where the child appears to be sending out a force that disrupts the divide between light and darkness.
There are images within the image, which made it difficult to paint, as the image seemed to change over the weeks of painting sessions. This piece tells a story I am still trying to fully read.
Original Artwork — $750
Through the Window
The Keeper
The central guardian of the chamber. The Keeper is not simply Death, but a custodian of passage and record—a figure surrounded by the accumulated memories and transformations of his own existence, along with the history of what has passed through the chamber.He appears almost contemplative, carrying the weight of what he has witnessed while guarding knowledge of dimensional planes and offering clues to the hidden knowledge of the universe. This is where answers to questions most are afraid to ask may be found, and where the Keeper reveals what has been created, what has occurred, and fragments of his own biography. This painting is only a small piece of The Chamber. He is its guardian.
Original Artwork — $1850
