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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Click Here to watch Clarifier Project Movie!

Thank you to Cathy Rivers for assembling this wonderful review of all the hard work so far. The Best Part is yet to come!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs4TaJbXBok

Saturday, October 03, 2009

experimenting with the sandstone trees





Working with local master mason and friend, Robert Smith, we experimented with what the sandstone trees would look like. The circular building will have 4 large sandstone trees in each of the cardinal directions. each one will represent a season, North - winter, East - Spring, South - Summer and West - Fall. Using the local sandstone rubble we wanted to create a "bark" texture by aligning the stone pieces on a vertical, rather than the traditional, horizontal. This was a little bit of stretch because the laying of courses of stone horizontally creates some integrity. Each row of stone holds up the next and so forth up the wall. So, we just had to try it out. Bobby was magnificent, helping during a beautiful day late in the summer to experiment with this technique. It looks like it is going to work. Now we just need to get the stone!!!