Thinking With My Hands

Rinus Roelofs is a mathematician and an artist. He has created many intriguing sculptures models and animations. ...

Trees and walls go well together.   Dry Stone Walling Across Canada was invited to do a workshop at the Arboretum last w...

The examples above are some of the ways I solved the problem of having random oval shapes all touching in three places. When...

Here is one arrangement of irregular oval shapes where every one is touching three, and only three, others. See if you can find a co...

A stone in a dry stone wall will fit more snugly, and hence will be more stable, as the number of points of contact with other st...

Even the rocks themselves have cellular structure.  So if we are talking about cellular structure, it's not just living ce...

There are connections. There are patterns. It is perhaps not surprising that, among other amazing facts about a waller's brain, it...

They often look like rocks, but don't be fooled.  This is turtle season. You're very likely to see one crossing the r...

A special course is being offered this August 19-20 in California, at the private property of John Fisher, the internationally famous ...

This is a stone bridge we saw in a prestigious golf course in Dornoch Scotland on our tour of walls that Margot Miller organized in Ju...

A drone is like a heavenly being, allowing us to see things we've created from different angels

Registration is on-line:  http://courses.opened.uoguelph.ca/…/category/programArea.do… More information is available here:  https...

It's not even f *ing straight ! There isn't one row of stones that doesn't look shitty ! It's too bad he didn...

Both walls are made from the same limestone material. They are on different parts of the same property. Which cope style do you prefer...

Documentary On Newstalk: Stone Mad We take a journey around Ireland, to discover what drives people mad… for dry stone walls. DOCU...

Yesterday, our two-day DSWAC weekend walling workshop, in Canton Ontario, finished in style, and on stiles.  Well done, to all the stud...

😊😊😊😊 😊😊😊😊😊 Sometimes it's too easy, almost glib to merely tell someone as they're going,'have a nice day'. How d...

If we are building a wall where a new house is being built, sometimes we finish the project before the clients actually see it compete...