John Felice Ceprano went down to the Ottawa River one day in 1986 and balanced one rock on top of another. Twenty-five years later, his sculptures
CHARLEMANGE'S GAME OF CHESS. I injured my back half way through the project. The back injury provided the inspiration: "Life is like chess, sometimes you just can't finish the game." The Gothic forms of the sculptures inpspired the reference to Charlemange.