Thinking With My Hands

The idea of stacking the stones in a slanted arrangement, along a dry stone wall, came to me back in 2007. We had an opportunity to d...

 Rocktoberfest 2011 Rick Palidwor an independent film maker and Manager of Creative Classes for Hart House at the University ...

In their once-upon-a-time-span way, stone recreate, over and over again, their own unique stories. That this seemingly prosaic material...

A Canadian Association Words connect thoughts. Thoughts connect people.  People connect names and places and faces.  People us...

Eric Landman I had the privilege to work along side this wonderful man yesterday on the spectacular wall that he and Kerry Landman...

I find I'm always thinking with my hands, even in scrabble. I keep moving the letters around on the tile tray hoping to discover...

      I predict one day all the great stones that have been buried by heavy machinery over the last fifty years will become very valuabl...

M A twelve foot high dry stone pyramid now marks the place in Northern Italy near South Tyrol where the famous  Ötzt  Iceman was first di...

A long long time ago they invented the wheel. It was most likely first made of stone.  And it was not originally invented so they co...

One of the most amazing things about doing anything on a computer, be it photo manipulating, number crunching, creative writing, drawi...

The colourful patterned asymmetry of the flora combines with the random design of Andrew's stonework.  To build a wall like this i...

Andrew Currie is a 60 year old Scottish dry stone waller and stone mason who lives on a horse farm with his wife Rebecca Currie, ra...

Some time ago, while working on a dry stone wall project at a cottage up in Port Carling Ontario I experimented with building a free s...

Unlike many other types of construction, we build dry stone walls based on the fact that gravity pulls straight down. If it pulled diago...

We sent in a design last week for a new sculpture for the Haliburton Sculpture Forest.  Canadian artists were invited to submit prop...

I suspect the stuff of rocks is more interested in getting into long-lasting walls than getting into computers

Leftover fragments from large stones which are used for making full scale walls and buildings were gathered by this waller and made into...

John Bland is a graduate of the Heritage Masonry course at Algonquin College in Perth Ontario where John Scott (a consultant with the D...

This handy iStone comes with great new apps, including 'Shazam for Rocks', for accurate on-site rock identification. Othe...