IndianRock.art The Pinery Stones, The Pinery, Colorado. Collected on private residential construction lot w/prior permission from builder. IndianRock.art authenticated, rss, cni & petrification, ultra-rare, premium grade, flawless, revealing, set of approximately 30 carved stones of varying grades and sizes.
Just so everybody knows, I had left Missouri, not expecting to encounter these stones in Colorado. By this point, I was freaking out… losing my mind. I thought to myself, “The move was sort-of an escape. Why am I seeing these stones so far from Missouri?” It definitely reaffirmed my original belief that all of the stones had been worked; but more importantly, that there was a larger task at hand.
The Pinery, at Parker, Colorado is an affluent neighborhood, located southeast of Denver. I spent a few months installing some woodwork at a few locations east of the high school. To my knowledge, most of these stones were trucked in as part of a few loads to build a temp driveway or for an infill project. My guess is that the loader picked up the entire bunch in one scoop from a separate building site that was apparently occupied by the folks that carved these stones.
The images below are just a sample of the entire lot. Of course, these stones deserve a better presentation, because there is so much more to these particular specimens.
Spin Art
The sample below, entitled ‘The Jaguar’, is a great example of ‘Spin Art’, coined here first, at IndianRock.art. Notice the smooth areas B and C. There are other edges that are smoothed, as well. One, labeled ‘A’ in the image, is where the right hand holds the piece so that it is angled in such a way to where the intended result is revealed to the bearer. So then, holding the stone where the hand matches the other smoothed edges exposes other carvings that overlap other work. The final result is what you see here: a clear outline of a cat’s head, ear, and upper neck- but slightly broken up by seemingly chaotic shadows and lines. Add to this a useful purpose: a tool, then it explains exactly why this artform would have arose through the ages, in a time long ago. I haven’t fully analyzed most of the stones, including the ones here, from ‘The Pinery Collection’. I suspect that there are more stories to be discovered in each one of them. How fun is that?
Story Tellers
Coined first here at IndianRock.art, I don’t have a lot of info on these ‘Story Teller’ stones, yet. From what I have gathered, though, is that they are props that help to tell intended stories. In essence, they are hand puppets, where the supporting hand acts as the lower jaw and the other hand pivots the stone, making it appear to be speaking! Why not, right? It makes sense. I have not found any of these ‘Story Tellers’, except for at The Pinery. (As a note: all stones may have come from an offsite location, on a dump truck, not sure.) I have at least three of these: bird, cat, and bear.
The Pinery Collection – only from IndianRock.art