Hombres y sus sombras
What is it between men and bulls? The horned creatures, the men with black hats. Here in the far past people have hunted these great beasts and later farmed them. Men and bulls dance ...
Men and Guitars
What is it with men and guitars? Exploring the relations of shape, feminine/masculine. The sound hole, the neck, the body, the heel, the curves. the strings. Mastering it. tapping it. stroking it. vibrating ...
Cam clamps (you can never have enough…)
In my adventures in crafts, some might say my amateur adventures in craft, I am always attracted to the making of tools and jigs ( in which I am admittedly wearing the ...
Cejilla, an experiment in ebony wood
Cejilla is the spanish capo; made traditionaly from the materials-vocubulary of the spanish guitar maker: Exotic hard wood, peg, string. I had a little bit of ebony wood with which the children played sometimes, ...
Post and rail
My friend James, whose a second generation ( or more ) forester and wood cutter in Sussex supplied me with the rails and posts of chestnut and oak for a fence as ...
Prototype #2
Just finished a new hive. At first I wasn't too happy to install windows in the hive. I thought that what the bees want to keep for themselves they are entitled to. One bitter winter ...
Pyrites
I woke up this morning thinking about the fractions of Iron Pyrites that are found on the coast. I remember the story I once was told about Iron - falling down from ...
Non-woven #3
Less ambitious than the felt and skin piece that I was planning to make last summer. A piece of Jacob sheep wool. whole fleece. cleaned, carded, seperated the colours and felted. An experiment in ...
Willow, an experiment in landscape manipulation.
I have started my affair with willows in 2004. So captivated I was that we decided to call our son, born in November that year - Willow. There is much to be ...
What is land?
At late, as I was waiting for the news of the Israelis invasion to Gaza, thoughts about occupation came to my mind. What is land? 1. A part of the surface of the earth ...