History
It was late September, 2011, when Martin Cooney elected to take a hammer drill, rather than a diamond blade, to a ten ton slab of Colorado Yule Marble. Into the resulting line of uniform holes he then placed a set of traditional plug and feather wedges. What this former trained and experience 'banker mason' gradually discovered was that by splitting the slab, as opposed to cutting into it, he had quite unwittingly set in motion an essential collaboration with the stone itself. This key feature - working with the stone, as opposed to inflicting his will upon it - lays at the very heart of Martin's unique Curvilinear Marble Sculpture. Within a matter of months of his profound discovery he had carved well over two dozen Direct Method sculptures, and by the following autumn no less than 41 individual and unique carvings had been coaxed from this one single 30 million year-old block.
Specialties
I n t r o d u c i n g The New Stone Flights