The “Old World” is literally starred with thousands of ancient megaliths erected about four thousand years ago. Among the most moving are the giant standing stones -- half-buried, half thrust up against the sky. When observed closely each of these reveals a numinous character and hints at benevolent mysteries yet unsolved. The monoliths in this series of paintings, painted as portraits of specific stones, are all in the Outer Hebrides Islands off the northwest coast of Scotland.

New England is criss-crossed with low stone walls -- built only two or three hundred years ago -- hugging the earth and fading into the forests around them. Despite their relative newness, they speak to us as keepers of our own distant personal pasts, circling ancestors fields and protecting their stock. These portraits are of walls that weave through Massachusetts and Rhode Island.