MANUEL ABASCAL -- Artist Biography
I began creating stone artwork at my midlife, in the mid-1990’s, in the Northern New Mexico high desert. I amassed stones and tools to work with them at a place where there weren’t people to complain of the noise or stone-dust. I had a great amount of time alone. Artwork began emerging from the marvelous stones and my persistence despite my inexperience and many mistakes, and, each stone taught me something so eventually I discovered solutions to the challenges in my opportunities. I practice 'direct' carving. This...more