This past week I spent a delightful late afternoon and early evening to make a portrait of Jean Pierre Jacquet, a Master Stone Carver from Avignon, France, who now works and resides in Burnsville, Minnesota. I became aware of Jean Pierre and his extraordinary stone work through social media posts by his wife, who happens to be a high school classmate of mine. Though we had not stayed in touch, really, we connected in the lead-up to a recent class reunion, and I had the pleasure of meeting them there last summer. After work one afternoon last week, I drove out to their lovely, wooded house in Burnsville, where I found Jean Pierre moving around some large blocks of stone in their driveway.