Thinking With My Hands

Allbrick Dürer was one of the first painters to seriously explore cross-hatching techniques that facilitated the creation of many of the fir...

What if Maurits Escher turned to dry stone walling?  What if he shaped his ducks and lizards and fish out of stone, making sure that every o...

 

Why is it that stones, when they get into groups, seem surprisingly eager to communicate recognizable geometric shapes and alignments. At so...

 Unlike humans, stones, even if they hang around doing nothing, don't get out of shape too quickly. In order to keep their shape, they v...

 Sometimes rocks look like food - a melon perhaps , a loaf of bread, eggs, candies, chocolate or popcorn. We need the inner nourishment of s...

 

Sometimes it feels like there are only two types of stones. Landscapers here in Canada often use something called 'Armour Stone' to ...

 

These are just a bunch of random characters who, if you remember them properly, will 'let you in'. Let you access your hidden self. ...

Looking at my footprints, backwards in the snow Not worrying what's behind me, trusting where I go Put my best foot backward, then stepp...

We get comfortable with t he paths we've carved that we travel everyday. Sometimes it is time for a new path. Sometimes it is easier to ...

 

  In Canada, a well-built dry stone wall along a busy residential street can often act as a kind of 'aesthetic speed bump' and be a ...

  Newness delights in the activity of being here. Each bundle of life arrives eager to discover new ways to celebrate their being invited to...

The river splashes and gurgles under the temporary gangway as work is being done to add rows of suitcase size/shape voussoirs over the arc o...

One thing you can be sure of if you take on a bridge project – You're going to be close to water. So even if you decide you might have t...

While we were in Asheville N C Mary and I went with Matt Smith to visit the Franklin Bridge just outside a place called Sandy Mush . I had n...