Collaborate to decorate your rock stack with leaves, twigs, flowers, grass, or even water droplets. Compete to see who can build the tallest stack or more ‘precarious’ stack. Construct a rock stack city with your friends. Try turning stones on their different sides. Try balancing larger rocks on top of smaller ones. Get creative! Experiment with rocks of unusual shapes and sizes. Think about the game Jenga, except you are adding pieces rather than removing them. If a rock is unstable, try placing it in a different orientation. Gradually let the weight of a rock rest on the stack, testing the stability. Instead of simply stacking rocks haphazardly, carefully and thoughtfully place each one. Keep in mind that as you add each rock, pressure is added to the rocks beneath it, which may shift their center of gravity. Choose a wide rock with a flat top that will give you lots of room to build onto, and also provide a steady center of gravity. The types of rocks available will depend heavily on your location.īegin stacking! It’s easiest to start with a large, stable foundation. You could choose a diverse range of stones that embody many shapes, sizes, and textures, or you could decide to select rocks that are all smooth and round, or chunky and textured.
Explore your backyard, the neighborhood park, or even a gravel pit by your school or work.Ĭollect rocks. You don’t need to trek out into wilderness to stack rocks, however. I love stacking cairns in dry creek beds, where an abundance of rocks, stones, pebbles can be found. As artist Michael Grab demonstrates in the video below, gravity is the glue.Īl you need is a stable surface, steady hands, a variety of rocks, and lots of patience! No matter the function of rock stacks, they are all consistently made only of rocks, without the use of glue or mud. Hikers may mark trails with cairns to find their way home adventurers may stack stones to take a break from their activity nature lovers and zen seekers may find refuge in the process of physically balancing stones. Rock stacks, also known as cairns, can serve practical, recreational, and spiritual purposes. It is perhaps this sole focus that is the true essence of stone stacking, the moment where you find that point of gravity which you have been searching for.The act of balancing rocks may seem totally pointless, but it can be fun, challenging, and even meditative process.
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Once you begin the process of stacking stones you can easily whittle away many hours building, re-positioning and seeking the next great balance as such this activity is extremely engaging and requires full attention. The true purpose of stone stacking is only known by the practitioner, many people do it for different reasons, some for the mindfulness and meditation benefits and others for the artistic pleasure of trying to achieve the next great stack. The beauty of this form of art, especially in stacks made at the beachside, is that they are transient in nature, you can spend all day creating stacks to return the next day and find the sea has reclaimed and reset the jigsaw.
Some people stack because they have ten minutes to spare whilst waiting for something else, others spend hours because they like the focus and attention it requires to clear their mind of other thoughts. We ultimately don’t have a definitive answer as it is inherently a personal choice. To begin anything you might ask yourself first what is the end goal, and that is a great questions. Although many practitioners believe that being out in nature and the process of searching for the next stone to add makes the process far more beneficial. Gardens, Parks, woodlands and even in the comfort of your own home. Whilst these are common locations stone stacking can be practiced anywhere you have something to balance. Streams and Rivers have a more smooth surfaced stone and this can provide some very artistic and pleasing on the eye stacks. Beach locations offer a myriad of different stone types which can provide some remarkable jagged odd looking structures. The most popular locations for stone stacking are near bodies of water, this is due to the body of natural materials found here. More experienced practitioners of stone stacking are also famous for building archways and other inter-dependant structures from rocks and stones found in nature. Stones are placed one on top of the other to produce sculptures which are held together by nothing other than gravity. Other names for this practice are Rock Balancing, Cairn building, Rock Stacking and more. Stone stacking utilises the materials found in nature and balancing uses nothing more than the natural gravitational pull of the Earth. Stone stacking is a meditative artistic skill which can be produced anywhere, with a growing global movement.
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