Primal Beauty

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Over the last three decades, Lawrence Stoller and his CrystalWorks studio have been pioneering an extraordinary new art form: the cutting and polishing of megacrystals and large gemstones, many of museum quality and some weighting a ton or more. Carved rare Earth crystals combined with bronze bases and light become sculptures of transcendent splendor. By taking a raw crystal in its natural state and painstakingly refining it to reveal the mystery within, Stoller opens a doorway into an alluring realm, hidden for millions of years. Within the pages of this book, you are invited to share the journey. Primal Beauty features an extraordinary collection of Crystal Work's sculptures, each paired with a poignant, inspiring quotation from a distinguished voice to illuminate an aspect of art, aesthetics, wisdom, beauty, nature, ecology, evolution, physics, or metaphysics that accentuates the presence and raw power of these monumental pieces. Enhanced with behind-the-scenes stories of Stoller's adventures, traveling