Crystal Fountain
Columbia River Basalt sculpture on a base of patinaed scrap steel. Collected near Klickitat, Washington. This piece, like most of the basalt I work with, comes from one particular lava flow out of the hundred odd flows that make up the entire Columbia River Basalt. Called the Basalt of Sand Hollow, this flow is over three hundred feet thick in the middle reaches of the Gorge, and as a result develops unusual patterns of natural jointing, causing the rock to break into interesting spikes, fins and crystal shapes, whose surfaces are coated with a layer of yellow-brown clay and iron oxide. This piece has a shape I am attracted to that resembles a fountain or spray of water.
Size 17" high, base 6" in diameter.
Sold $550
Size 17" high, base 6" in diameter.
Sold $550
