Thinking With My Hands

  At the stage where the actual construction of the dry stone dome was to begin, it was decided that to reduce the amount of noise on the jo...

Here's a look at what the coursing of stones stepping around the temple looks like, as I'm standing on the edge. You can just see th...

To make stones, which are by definition quite heavy - mostly rocks that have irregular shapes and sizes, and are decidedly hard to shape; to...

The scaffolding we would need to be able to work higher around the six sided temple would have to be safe and strong and not get in the way,...

  As you can see we had built the temple up as high as we could standing on a variety of platforms, including a section of metal scaffolding...

We arrived mid January this year and began the next phase on the Temple To make the final voussoir shape for the last unfinished arch openin...

. This lovely piece of collage art showing the outside of the Temple of Imperfections was created by Sandy Oppenheimer. She and her husband ...

By the end of the second three-week building phase of the Temple of Imperfections, we had accomplished much . Six high battered walls, curvi...

 . , Our diverse universe continually creates  deliciously beautiful things. We enjoy this diversity as we taste and discover many of the va...

  "We had three large canvasses to work on, on the outside. We were all agreed that each exterior panel of dry wall needed breaking up...

Sean wrote about the ring ..."Having reached what was the upper point of the curve on the inside wall there was still some debate as to...

We wanted to do something on the inside walls besides the seats.  Sean's whisky niche, modelled on a one litre bottle of Duty Free Glen...

  Taking a break from the temple to discuss hearting. For anyone who builds dry stone walls there is a better, more applicable version of th...

"Construction and fabrication of quoins was essentially same as for inner doorways" writes Mr Adcock, " with one big wrinkle…...

More from Sean on the details of the Temple. "I think we decided on seat(s) fairly early on in the design process, I certainly drew a s...

  My friend Sean is a kind of concaveman  He builds, with the minimum of tools, better than anyone can. He scribes a wall that's not ...