Thinking With My Hands

John Henry replaced the long wooden fence he had taken down on the neighbour's side with a long dry stone wall. He started the great Rap...

John Henry obviously loved stone and was beginning to get excited about what things he could do with it on his new property in Virginia. Hav...

My first contact with John Henry was over the phone. He called out of the blue and was looking for perfectly rounded stones. He was calling ...

Lego structures are fun to build. Part of the satisfaction comes from their fitting so well due to their regular patterned shapes and their ...

April 24th 2010 Fall 2010 Jake Sandison is a professor at Loyalist College in Belleville Ontario. He has taken two or three dry stone wall c...

Andy Goldsworthy wall in Palo Alto California. ( with sawn copes ) There is an expression that 'speed is of the essence'. In walli...

Using Legos for repairing stonework Like the dry stone method, building walls or repairing walls with brightly coloured Lego might not be th...

Some friends of mine have decided to move from their old place in the country to a newer place, but still in the country. Last year we built...

Where do crazy off-the-wall ideas come from? Do they come from associations? Or do they come from disassociations? Do they come f...

The famous white squirrel who has been a resident of Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto for many years was spotted at dawn admiring the new d...

Have you ever wanted to build walls like a REAL dry stone waller? Are you TIRED of trying to shape stones all the time with one of those hea...

Hi there, I had a great time watching people from the association build the stone walls, arches, the bridge and brick oven at Landon Bay ove...

Welcome to Thinking With My Hands where a picture is worth a thousand hand-thoughts. Stone is such a lovely medium. It not only stands alone...

Sam Bauman was flattered, and a little surprised to be notified he won this year's Dryscaping Award. Sam was awarded a cheque for the a...

A while ago I revisited Hill and Dale B&B to take some better shots of a dry stone ruins we built during Rocktoberfest, back in 2005 in ...

How's this for an innovative approach to thinking about public art installations? The concept is best understood as an 'interactive...

When you are building a dry stone wall you often need to find stones with certain specific shapes. It helps to have names for these shapes s...

This challenging little hands-on project we built on our property, one that we came back to work on every now and then between dry stone...

Who hasn't had their tires balanced? It's quite a trick, really. I cant imagine how you would do it with an 18 wheeler. Anyway, I th...

Mechanized wall-building and landscaping is just around the corner, in fact it's coming down the street right now. Incorporating the won...