{"id":2515,"date":"2025-04-15T17:56:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/?page_id=2515"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:56:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:56:29","slug":"garden-week-2025-stones","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/garden-week-2025-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Week 2025 Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have the honor of carving several stones for the gardens featured in the Albemarle County <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/gcvirginia.org\/historic-garden-week-old\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virginia Garden Week <\/a>event. Here are images of the process of carving the stones and lettering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7046.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2522\"\/><figcaption>Set of four complete<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7035.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2521\"\/><figcaption>one of the other stones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7026.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2520\"\/><figcaption>nearly finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"398\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GardenWeek25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2523\"\/><figcaption>One of the iterations of designing lettering<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_7012.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2519\"\/><figcaption>beginning carving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6999.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2518\"\/><figcaption>First stone shaped<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"632\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6993.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2517\"\/><figcaption>The raw pieces of soapstone to be used<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" src=\"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_6961.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2516\"\/><figcaption>Sample letter in soapstone (a stone local to the Albemarle County area, from the quarry in Schuyler, VA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have the honor of carving several stones for the gardens featured in the Albemarle County Virginia Garden Week event. Here are images of the process of carving the stones and lettering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2515"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2515\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.belfineart.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}