!["Medicine Wheel" engravings. "Medicine Wheel" engravings.](https://riverson.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/medicine-wheel-600.jpg)
“Medicine Wheel” engravings.
engraved marble shards stained with oil pastel.
“Medicine Wheel” Engravings
These are marble shards I engraved for my Solstice Door sculpture. Before I mounted the engravings in concrete on the sculpture, I played with different configurations and made a medicine wheel. The engravings were made from broken pieces of marble. I stained the engravings with oil pastel. The images on the engravings are from the dream time and my days as a boy playing behind the levee in the Mississippi Delta.
!["Star Mapping" engraving. "Star Mapping" engraving.](https://riverson.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/star-mapping.jpg)
“Star Mapping” engraving.
“Star Mapping” engraving.
A shaman in the dream time maps the winter solstice by watching where a star sets
on the horizon and builds an serpent-shaped earthen mound to map the events.
!["Star Pole" engraving. "Star Pole" engraving.](https://riverson.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/star-pole.jpg)
“Star Pole” engraving.
A pole on the horizon is all that is needed to build a celestial calendar.
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soft-shelled turtle engraving
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