Thinking With My Hands

When writing to me about the four keystones we needed to fabricate, Sean  Adcock  wrote  "All I remember is that they were fraught with...

  On the outside arched opening the treatment of the voussoirs,    was different. Sean writes " After a couple of stepped  voussoirs  h...

The Voussoirs?  Sean and I found it harder to remember how we actually did them. We have more photos of the making and placing of them than...

Recently on Instagram I posted a photo of the Temple of Imperfections. I explained in the text that the installation  was  called the Temple...

Sean goes on more.. .   "The inside quoins were another matter.  At any point up the wall the batter is different, as it curves in or ...

Sean Adcock goes on to explain about the quoins in the temple...  "The outside quoins ( corner stones ) were relatively simple, in as m...

The lean of the outer wall of our design would have the typical batter of a dry stone wall. However, for the batter of the inner wall of th...

  Before we go into all the details of the temple's arch dimensions, the exterior batter and vertical elliptical interior walls, and all...

Basalt Columns look manmade. They look like they are trying to look like a lot of work went into carving them. They are just asking to be st...