NEWS: It will not be possible for me to attend the symposium this year, sorry.

Stone Trekking
By Julie Kandyba

Most of what I know about the shaping and placing of stones I have learned from your fearless leader, Tomas Lipps. My primary professional building materials are digital files. For the last four issues I have produced STONEXUS magazine, and I have maintained your website for around three years.

I like to travel. While I have worked with Tomas, you have seen a few of my photos in the magazine. He has invited me to share more of these with you, so I will be presenting slideshows, including photos of 700bc burial mounds on the banks of the Ili river in SE Kazakhstan and carved stone heads/boundary markers from the 9-1100ad Karakhanid culture in Kyrgystan.

From Crimea, turbaned Tatar gravestones from Bakchisarai, last European seat of Mongols in Europe; and the massive Byzantine stone walls of Mangup. Plus Kararite gravestones, cave cities, Scythian burial mounds, the ruins of Panticapaeum and Nymphaeum.

I will also bring devotional stone piles (inukshuks?) from holy lake Mansarovar in western Tibet and the stonecarving of the incomparable Angkhor temples in Cambodia.

In addition, I will have the Stone Foundation files with me and will be available on the odd occasion should any attending member wish to tweak his listing; or to consult on graphic, web, and print questions any entrepreneur may have.

Information? Comments? Questions? kandybajulie@gmail.com