Love This! Gravity Glue

Um, holy balance. Today's featured artist, Michael Grab, balances rocks--one on top of another--to create elaborate sculptures that make me question everything I understand about gravity, patience, balance, and, well, rocks.  

His process sounds extremely zen and yogic, it "resembles an intimate dance with the elements--adapting to the moments, embracing creative intuition, focused breathing, silence"--and gravity is the only “glue” that holds his creations in equilibrium.

Cray-cray. And inspiring. And meditative. And astounding. Grab says the following about his work (and his process): 

Over the past few years of practicing rock balance, simple curiosity has evolved into therapeutic ritual, ultimately nurturing meditative presence, mental well-being, and artistry of design. 

Alongside the art, setting rocks into balance has also become a way of showing appreciation, offering thanksgiving, and inducing meditation. Through manipulation of gravitational threads, the ancient stones become a poetic dance of form and energy, birth and death, perfection and imperfection. They become a reflection of ourselves in a way; precariously sturdy, mysterious and fragile. 

Beautiful, don't you think? I'm mesmerized by his creations, and am excited to share them with you. Take a look at some of my favorites below... 

Can you believe it? They make you think your eyes are playing tricks on you, don't they? 

You can view TONS more of Michael Grab's incredible rock structures on his website and/or on his Facebook page. Thank you to Lacey for tipping me off about Grab's work! You guys know my taste so well ;) 

PS. We're in the middle of a CRAZY blizzard with hurricane-level winds here on the Cape (yay, spring!), so please send us warm thoughts and wishes for no-power-outages today! If you don't see a post tomorrow morning, you'll know we lost it...literally and figuratively ;)