Things added in May, 2008
Flint - Earth and Sea
Looking at the flakes on the ground; then rearranging them from the nodule to the tiniest of flakes produced by the pressure of a pointed antler's tine against a palm covered with ...
Tipi poles
Went to a coppice yesterday to look for tipi poles. It's the wrong season to cut them down and in any case the new saplings will never have enough light if I ...
The order of things.
With the purest shape in mind, I need to let go of any other concept to produce a mark that will surprise me. One that is familiar because I know it ...
Tipi
I have ordered a tipi from a German maker. Now waiting for it to arrive. The tipi is a human lodge. It was preserved and probably perfected in the great plains of America, ...
Flint on the go.
On the train to London Bridge and back home, daily, I sketch bits of stone on paper. The table is narrow and is shared with three more fellow commuters for most of ...
Knapping # 2
After a three hours session with Will Lord, in which I have bashed and crumbled and flaked and reduced fine quarried flint to dust, I can see ...