Posted in cutting stone, drystone, Flagging, Gainesville, Stone Art, Stonework | August 30th, 2011 | No Comments »


The piece is ready for its unveiling tomorrow. I’m hosting an open house at the studio tomorrow morning, before I take it all apart and load it on pallets. Click the image above for a larger version. I intend to make another panorama, making sure to get the entire thing in the picture…
Posted in cutting stone, drystone, Flagging, Gainesville, Stone Art, Stonework | August 28th, 2011 | No Comments »

104 templates cut and curled up in a bucket. Tomorrow I start messing around with the way it all fits together. It’s easy to get lured in to fixing each stone as I lay it, but in reality, it’s often one stone, somewhere else in the design that is pushing the stones too close together or too far apart. Find the offending party and fix it and then the rest will find their place.

Posted in cutting stone, drystone, Flagging, Gainesville, Stone Art, Tools | August 11th, 2011 | No Comments »

Allie sent a flying space car with me to work this morning. Here Captian Lego attempts to solve the riddle of the Zero Tolerance Wheel.
Posted in Creatures, cutting stone, drystone, Flagging, Gainesville, Stone Art, Stonework | August 9th, 2011 | No Comments »



At the top: Close up of some joints between stones.
Middle: Bug tracks that appear every morning in the dust. Centipede?
Bottom: Power cords.