Creating with My New Dremel

 

What fun it is working with my new Dremel! My fellow gardeners and  myself are creating table decorations with stones from our own  properties. Our conventions are coming up soon, in April. There will be gardeners from both the State and the Pacific Regions, including our own Sedona Area Garden Club. There are demonstrations, classes, and well known experts in their fields. I went two years ago and learned new techniques and information, as well as meeting very interesting people from other locations in our state. 

 However, not everyone knows about our state's natural beauty and historical petroglyphs and pictographs. The former are carved into the rocks: the latter are painted on.  We were inspired to try to reproduce some designs from the petroglyphs found around Sedona, where I live and create, as well as the many ruins in our Verde Valley . We are talking about art that could be as much as 1,000 years old.  

As I tried to hold my hand steady with my electric tool ( that really does not like to go in circles) , I wondered, "What were the tools the Ancient ones used; what did these symbols actually mean; what was the intention of those people: and especially, How the heck could they carve into these hard surfaces by hand ??". These   images are found not only near Sedona, but in many locations in the west. 

It was very humbling to create figures as exacting  as these images we were emulating.  I am impressed and will always wonder about the methods used and meanings of their creations. These are some of my results that my cool tool helped me create.