Miners Art - selected works from 2009-present

Original Artwork/Music/Video by Miner & Collector Josh Varnedore

Video by Josh Varnedore, Music by Josh Varnedore and Hideki Umezawa, Editing by Josh Varnedore and David Altobelli

Prospecting

A collaboration i did in 2012 with the band Hammock

The album cover for Amman/Josh - Places re-master, released on the Hammock Music label

A music video i made for the Amman/Josh release, using our crystal camera lens. Filmed in West Texas and through to Western New Mexico/Eastern Arizona. These explorations led us to a Navajo experimental garden where we gave out Arkansas Quartz and traded knowledge of clay building techniques and the process of gardening with minimal water. We learned about the Blue Corn, and the wonderful Navajo grandmothers fighting for the survival of the Navajo language. That night we slept in tents near the garden and i dreamt of rainbow coyotes joining me for my sweet garden slumber. Very surreal experience.

Amman/Josh - Places vinyl remastered and released on vinyl on Hammock Music and distributed by Secretly Distribution (originally released in 2010/re-released 2018) -Ambient/instrumental music

Untitled portrait of Amman while exploring volcanic fields

Ouroboros - Self-prospected/Hand-dug Quartz Crystal "Grid" Design

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crystal craft / bird vessel

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Untitled B/W Landscape taken through the Crystal Camera Lens

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Portrait of my Son and best buddy, always exploring for clay and fossils

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Portrait of Rubidoux

Portrait i took of my friend's porch where we spent many days and nights making music and stone grids while the dogs howled and the chickens played piano.

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Hand Mined Quartz and Clay 35mm Camera with Crystal Lens

The world as seen through our Crystal Camera lens

Hummingbird "pick" tool, hand-carved from Apple Wood (little hardwood/antler picks like this make excellent crystal extractors...once you get through the hard rock with chisels and hammers, and a pocket of clay and crystal is opened up and exposed, a more delicate approach is needed to ensure the crystals do not get damaged by large metal tools.)

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Portrait i took of my friend during one of our many adventures

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Hand-dug and self prospected quartz "picture frame with sunset landscape of the mountain the quartz is from" in a hand-dug clay paperweight, w/ turtle claws

Extraterrestrial 1 (4 different angles) - sculpted from hand-dug Clay + hand dug Wavellite for it's eyes & fired the ancient way in an earthen pit

all artwork/music/video on this page copyright Josh Varnedore(also Amman Abbasi, Hammock etc) (please contact info@arkansasminerals.com for licensing inquiries)