B.C. artist fills yard with towering stone sculptures [Video]

You may notice the swirling symbol that he “painted” with a power-washer on the sidewalk first.

But by the time you walk through his “gate-less gate”, specifically designed without a lock for curious people to enter through, you can’t help but notice that his front yard is filled with all sorts of towering stone sculptures.

“People come and they peek, and they stop,” Lorenzo De Francesco smiles as he welcomes me into his garden. “Here there are many stories.”

The story behind how De Francesco unexpectedly began making the sculptures begins when he was just a boy, growing up in Italy.

“I remember I woke up in the middle of the night,” De Francesco says, recalling a memory from when he was around seven-years-old.

“I cut a broom handle in half.”

De Francesco says he felt compelled to take a pair of scissors apart too, before spending the rest of the night crafting the wood into a …