In the Company of Stone (2007)
ISBN: 9781579653477
In the Company of Stone (2007)
ISBN: 9781579653477
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Daniel Snow is a waller, an artisan who builds walls, terraces, caverns, and the occasional sphere or pool out of dry stone. It's an ancient skill--building with only what the earth provides.
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ISBN
9781579653477
Author
Dan Snow
Pages
118
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
ARTISAN
Date of publication
2007
Format
Book
Language
English
No mortar, no nails, nothing to hold his creations together except gravity, an invisible glue he can sense in the stones' "conversations" of squeaks and rumbles. A hollow sound means a void needs to be filled; a solid fit is secured with the sound of a bolt being thrown. Snow's evocative prose and Peter Mauss's richly textured photographs of Snow's work reveal the nuance and beauty of walling--and of one man's relationship with nature. The result is by turns poetic and practical.