The efforts that create an EarthScape of Purpose and Meaning, an Essential Space, are indeed profound. I would truly be remiss not to recognize the many outstanding talents that are drawn together while a project is underway. From the design front, I often stir concepts and formulations with fellow landscape designer Jeff Thibodeau, Principle of Helios Land Design. Jeff and I studied together under the tutelage of Sig Lonegren in the early 90's on the "Concepts and Constructs of Sacred Places". Thibodeau has been a tremendous source of raw-bone basics regarding the landscape design industry as well as being a like hearted enthusiast in uncovering the meaning and purpose of life.

I collaborate with Debi Libuda for my landscape design artistic renderings. Debi of Libuda Designs has the perfect combination for the work, as she is a certified horticulturalist and�a fine artist in oil and sketching. Of the many places she has displayed her work, one of her highest profiles was at the Presidential White House where� her art�work displayed from 1993 - 2002.

Charles Schoonmaker is another remarkable landscape renditions artist that I have brought in on projects. Charles has 20 years of professional artistry in the entertainment industry, designing stage sets and costumes for Broadway as well as television. He has made a career transition as an extremely talented perennial garden designer, creating exquisite color patterns for his clients.

In going from the concept, to the design, to the construction of an EssentialSpace, the construction phase carries the greatest efforts. The most subtle force in this effort is the site layout. Before a stone or a plant hits the ground, the geometrical, symmetrical and mathematical calculations of a site are set upon the earth. Mike Smith supports these efforts at the site. Mike is an extremely gifted engineer of varied industries. He is an Applied Mathematics expert and essentially a well rounded genius. His expertise suits him as the developer of this website.

After site layout, I organize and work along side a team of stone and block masons from a collaborative called Standing Stone Masons. Sean Lorway, of Lorway Contractors is a part of this team. He is an extremely talented mason of stone, granite and brick in all respects. His level of build-out and preparation for the foundation of a sight goes beyond normal preparation. I often tell him "Sean, you must have been a Castle Builder in a past life."

Rob Kneeland and Chris of RC Masonry are also a part of this collaborative. I have never worked along side hand and heart with the likes of Rob and Chris. Their enthusiasm for working with stone is magical. Each stone, whether it be granite, flag stone, blue stone or field stone is alive, has a characteristic, a face or a story that melts into their hands and flows through there hearts as they place and work the stone. Rob once told me that as a young boy he would go out back of his Foxboro, Mass. home, down into the woods and sit on the old New England stone wall fences that crossed the land. He would bring his drum sticks in his back pocket and drum for hours on the stone walls. Dreams would follow in the night, of magical happenings with stone and his sticks. Kneeland is the only stone mason that I have known that understands the dynamic symmetry behind much of the historic stone work of New England's antiquated history. (Reference: "Manitou, The Sacred Landscapes of New England's Native Civilization" for further understanding of New England stone works.)

As I have gone inside the "gene mass make-up" of an EssentialSpace let me pull back, out the other way, to the outside container which holds this collaborative together. Let me mention first the community at Harvard's Landscape Institute and its affiliate organizations. I have gained massive support and a vastness of information and knowledge from this community. They help me do what I do. Also, other folks less directly involved, but no less instrumental, like plant and stone vendors, heavy machine operators, delivery drivers and copy centers?.

Then of course there is my web site creator, Kathleen Batcheller. Kathleen is flawless with the "word" ... or for what the marketing industry calls "the copy". She has a crisp mind for detail as she creates artistic flow and form of text for mass communication purposes. She backs this with her imaginative understanding of artistic and graphic layout, which wells from her talents as an ornamental metal artist. She is principle of the marketing firm, Minty Fresh Marketing.

...BUT MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL there is the client!! It is with the client that this above mentioned stage is set. It is the client that dreams the dream, we dream together...so that the stage can shift from set to motion!