Stonework, Restoration & Venetian Plaster Gallery

Our Photo gallery represents a sample of Our masonry work implemented in cities and towns throughout Massachusetts and the New England area.  

           

hand chiselling granite

"THIS IS A STONE, and within a certain length of time it will pehaps be soil and from the soil it will become plant, animal or man. Previously, I should have said: This stone is just a stone, it has no value, it belongs to the world of Maya, but perhaps within the cycle of change it can also be man, God and Buddha. I do not respect and love it because it was one thing and will become something else, but because it has already long been everything and always is everything. I love it just because it is a stone, because today and now, it appears to me a stone. I see value in each one of its fine markings and cavities, in the yellow, in the gray, in the hardness and the sound of it when I knock it, in the dryness or dampness of its surface. There are stones that feel like oil or soap, that look like leaves or sand, and each one is different and worship Om in its own way; each one is Brahman. At the same time, it is very much stone, oily or soapy, and that is just what pleases me and seems wonderful and worthy of worship."

Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse

                                                

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