Thinking With My Hands

One of our students returned yesterday to show her family the walls she and the rest of the crew built during the two day ...

The three stages of the three sided three styled free styled dry stone wall workshop near San Francisco on Valentine's day ...

                           Magic Realism Art by Paul Bond | Abduzeedo Design Inspiration

When I'm working with rocks and stones and listening carefully to the them, and really letting them teach me.... that's the ...

Amherst Island resident honoured with Heritage Trust Award Dry Stone Festival John Shaw-Rimmington Andrea Cross with some of th...

Sean Smyth, Dave Claman and Royce Kelly have worked the last couple of weeks preparing the stone tiles to make the turret roof for th...

"Before enlightenment, chop stones, carry hearting.  After enlightenment, chop stones, carry hearting." Any task can b...

Lord, grant me the courage to accept the stones that I should not change the shape of, even though I can  The humility to  'chan...

Had another go at croc balancing yesterday. They are not really heavy enough. Work boots are better. I'll have to get some. ...

Still on the positive/negative theme from our Gualala workshop, and using dry laid stones again, I went down to Anchor Bay beach yest...

Repairing dry stone walls, like building them, is an ancient craft. The common name for it is gapping, and a lot of farmers in Britain...

That was one KEY keystone !

Mark Ricard and John DiBona make sure the granite seating slabs go into place properly. There is lots of fitting still to be done. M...

We are still making beautiful music here at the Gualala Art Centre. This monochromatic photo shows me practicing doing a monochromatic...

Here's a shot of the dry stonework Nicholas Tompkins and his fantastic crew, and Kyle Schlagenhauf and his amazing crew, and an army of...

The stone feature we built at the Gualala Art Centre, during the Positive/Negative Conversation Workshop, turned out to have a gre...

Every stone project should have a good stone foundation. Bill Hay of Bedrock provided the much needed grading and prep work and gravel...

We were talking about the space between us all And the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion Never glimpse the truth,...

Stones skillfully fitted together structurally, with nothing else keeping them in place, can create a kind of visual conversation.  It...

I had our 'creative walling' workshop class at Gualala begin by warming up with a few stretches and then we did a couple of ar...