Thoughts about the material and the patterns
Agates fascinate me for several reasons. They show me in an aesthetic way how manifold and useful nature is as
long as human beings use its resources and do not try to rule it with a technique.
What makes me think like this is that these materials use to be the start of crafting tools and weapons in the
beginning of mankind. They started off with simple sticks and stones and later they manufactured all kind
tools and weapons (example of nice modern made points) out of , obsidian , agate and equal materials. During stone age for example flint was exhausted on the German island of
Rügen and was sometimes traded (in conjunction with amber) far to the south of Europe.
Later on >cameos and signets or even tankards and pods were cut from agate . The last height of agate leads us to the beginning of technics where the organic lighter (firestone and steal) of these days was used
as ignition. After this the material became stale and was now only used as gemstone or in flint mills and
formed as balls in pharmaceutical pebble mills. My intension was to set up small monuments for this special
material here.
