From an Ordinary Rock to a Piece of Art • SUISEKI

So beautiful in time and space. Good on ya! I’m sometimes still working on perfection. Will no doubt be a lifetime job.

You are such a gentle sensitive soul!
Your creation has it all! The meaning behind your project design makes it that much more unique and Beautiful!!!

It soothed me.😻

Oh just wow Jesse. Love this. It looks so beautiful and zen. I’ve never heard of a viewing rock before. Super cool. Cheers.

Beautiful! Great job! 🥰

Beautiful very nicely delayed marvelous rock

Absolutely stunning Brother... Thank you... 🌲🦅🦉🦅🌲

I have developed a fascination with bogwood over the past four years mainly due to the chemical processes and I have a load of quarries, old quarries, rock piles, and I am not that far from the Little Missouri, Montana, and the Badlands. Ideas

Gosh I love you!! I just have no words to express the feelings I was over come with thru this entire video... needless to say, it was heart felt... thank you!

I can see an Elephant!
❤💕

Broooooo! That's wicked! I love that you did something different. And that it was minimal and really beautiful. Japanese aesthetics are so cool. Mindful and intentional while honouring the natural form of the materials. It really did come together beautifully. Haha, a bit of Aussie humour with your neighbour 😂. Rachelle, Gold Coast 🦘

Hai.salam kenal sesama pencinta suiseki Indonesia west Sumbar👍👍👍❤

Bro u into bonsai too??that’s so cool..
I started to make a bonsai with some beautiful opals jagates and moonstones ..
But let me say the work you made in this video is just heartwarming

I am so glad I came across this makers challenge. I find this art form to be so calming and relaxing. What a delight piece of art. More than art.

Wow that turned out well. Fabulous rock

Wow! Just wow!

I love this. I have a few rocks that would be perfect for this. I definitely support the decision to not fully cover the wood. It is such a beautiful piece of wood that is rich in history. I love this display man.

You’ve probably thought of this already, and I haven’t even finished the video so you may have figured it out. What if you use carbon paper under the rock? That way when you press down you leave a pattern underneath? That may not even work. Such a cool project!

That plank turned out so well!!

Absolutely strapped in, loving the rides you take us on! Keep Rock'n!

This is fantastic!!! Don’t worry about the “rules”. There are no rules when it comes to art.

Very zen,I like the change

You have inspired me to do the same with one of my dohnut flint's,thanks from london

I laugh at rules.

Nice stuff dude

sangat indah karya mu sahabat ku,salam satu hobby dari aceh indonesia.

Helo mister
Salam satu hobi
Dari pemburu suiseki
Kuningan jawa barat indonesia

Great hobby🎉

Enjoying these videos. I have a rock that i dont know what it is. I live in Cairns but not sure what this rock is.

Awesome job, I need one.

That is really cool.

This is such a rock lover kind of video for sure. I never knew of this tradition, but saw rocks displayed in beautiful ways from that culture. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Just more rocks to love!

This is a very nice display piece :) Ahhhhhh

Super job inspiring

it's great lods, thanks for sharing, I am a Filipino bonsai artist and I love finding stones like that, you shared a great thing and it's mean so much to me, I have so many stones but dnt know yet what to do with them...I Love this video, thank you...

Beautiful work!

こんなのは、水石、としてなってない、世界が、わかつてないよ、😭🤸

nicely done

It’s beautiful!

Fun now I gotta try this

This video has inspired me to do something like it with some of my rocks. Thanks for the inspiration fellow rockhounder!

Terimakasih info cara bikin tatakan batu SUISEKI sangat bermanfaat sekali

Your Suiseki is sooo beautiful. I love the tray, the way you made it, the way you have the stones and the moss. You picked a great stone - it shows so much time. Thank you for sharing this amazing art.

This video lit up my brain as a rockhounding cabinet maker this is a perfect little way for me to deal with the bigger rocks i can't slab myself. I've got a volcanic purple beauty with pink spots/vesicular/bubble/ring-ish bits all over, that would go great together with a nice slab of purple heart wood. You, sir, have inspired me to the greatest extent. Thank you! Proper job!

Good afternoon Jesse. Somehow I missed this video back when you posted it. As with all your videos, this project was a true vision. I know it didn't come out how you expected but you let the stone and the wood tell you how they wanted to work together. The end result looks like a 3d Landscape portrait painted by one of the renaissance masters. If I saw that in nature, a beach leading up to an ancient boulder, like Theo said, I would sit there for hours admiring how the whole scene works together.

I miss your unique perspective on life and our shared hobby. I hope to see a couple more new videos of you and your friends walking the streams and rivers showing us all that Australia has to offer.

Anyone else see a little monkey or a koala in that basalt?
Jesse you did an amazing job switching from the daiza to the suiban... only thing i would have changed would be to continue the sand to the far left upper corner... kind of like Yin and Yang that bad boy 😉☯️

I didn’t catch the “(no tools needed)” part.

lOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Jesse. THANKS for introducing folks to this beautiful art form. I have been collecting and displaying Suiseki rocks for the last 30 plus years ... as well as being a "hound".
The study of Suiseki is a fascinating one with many rules, categories and styles based on centuries of contemplation and study. One can only scrap the surface even after years of practice.
Your wood treatment was both reverant and inspired and the rock you chose was quite stunning. BTW, Basalt is one of a small number of types of stones used in Suiseki work.
Congratulations on the end result...the implied (and real), space, the spirit and flow/ energy of rock and wood created a sense of calm.
Gassho
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