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C H A R L E S C L O U G H
V O S B U R G
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C H A R L E S C L O U G H
V O S B U R G
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First edition, 2011© 2011, Charles Cloughwww.clufff.com
Published by Charles Clough
Protected by copyright under the terms of the International Copyright Union; all rights reserved. Except forfair use in book reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced for any reason by any means, including anymethod of photographic reproduction, without the permission of the publisher.
Printed in the U.S.A on Charlie’s Canon 9000.
Cover image: Vosburg, 2010, rock, 7 7/8 inches tall
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Vosburg is a stone I found on a hillside near Elizaville, NewYork.As in the Chinesetradition of guaishi and Japanese, suiseki, I have determined its base and most effectivespatial orientation and slightly modified it by polishing one of its edges.
My friend, Paul Chinelli, took me to his neighbors, Ellen and Bob Steirs’, propertybecause geologists from the Smithsonian Institution had investigated the location toresearch an outcrop of particularly old rock.
Vosburg is Ellen Steir’s birth name that she shares with predecessors who first came tothe area in the 1630s.
These images are best viewed by crossing your eyes to superimpose the pair, then adjustfocus to acheive the illusion of the stone in three-dimensional space
Charles Clough1/11/2011
Westerly, Rhode Island
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