Suiseki is the Japanese art of selecting and arranging stones in aesthetically pleasing forms. Bill Webster has created a garden using traditional Japanese norms, including several works of Suiseki. You can view images of them at the link, as well as read a lengthy article about this medium.
Link via The Presurfer | Photo by the artist
In America, we call it OCD.
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I thought we called them Pet Rocks.
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Compare this to the Chinese, who put on pedestals the ugliest rocks they could find. (I saw this on our tour of China.)
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I wonder if I could get a NEA grant to do this...
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