In carving this sculpture I explored a space of self-reflection - - a quiet, private, meditative space, calming ,deeply grounded in who I am, and revealing of who I have been or might become. In viewing and touching Introspection now, I enter that space and experience it, again and again. The stone was just an oddly-shaped rock on a beach when I took it home. Then, as "standing stone", it stood balanced upright in the weather for years as I contemplated it. I must have been contemplating myself all that time, because both the sculpture and all I did to transform it from the rock to what is now really do express what it is like for me to be Introspective.