The power of rendering observation in pencil is that the medium requires time and patience, therefore the piece works in harmony with observing the disciples of change.

This piece documented a 6 month period between jobs where it felt that nothing would change, no matter how much I willed it.  Every day I walked my dog and watched the changes take hold of the plants, the sky, the path ... everything but my situation. 

In one walk in particular, the flora was frozen white under a frost.  It appeared as if everything was carved out of stone and at once I had a subject who would enact these changes: the Stone Carver. Walking through the forest that day felt like walking through his studio.

Since drawing does take so long, drawing the changes I observed felt like carving out stone, slow and steady and seemingly of no consequence one day, but resulting in massive shifts over time.  This is the truth hidden in the drawing: change despite itself.