In the Company of Stone
by Dan Snow
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Author: Dan SnowPhotographer: Peter Mauss
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-30
ISBN: 1579653472
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Artisan
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Book Review: Words and Walls
Summary: 5 Stars
Over a decade ago, Dan Snow repaired the hundred-year-old dry stone walls that wander across our property in Vermont. The tumbled stone had been evocative, but the symmetry of the reassembled walls has been an irresistible delight. I do not know Snow--he worked while we were away--but I have thanked him a million times for his art. In this book, he has somehow captured with words the sensory pleasure of organizing and reorganizing stones. The art of walling, as evidenced by Peter Mauss's photographs, and the skill of walling, as described by Snow, are compulsively fascinating, an adventure for the armchair dreamer.
The text and illustrations blend carefully, and the color photographs sparkle. The reproduction of the black and white photographs varies in quality, alas. This is a charming book. An excellent companion book is Gordon Hayward's "Stone in the Garden."
Summary of In the Company of Stone
?Finding stone, choosing it, and letting go of it are the three things a waller does. I?d miss any one of them too much if I asked someone else to do them for me. I may work by myself, but I?m not alone. I?m in the company of stone.?Dan 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. 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.
Dan Snow builds stone walls without benefit of mortar or other binding material. This ancient dry-stone method is experiencing a revival, and Snow's In the Company of Stone is full of moody photos of recent landscape projects, some of which look as if they'd been part of the scenery for centuries. Snow's poetic commentary and a helpful appendix of design detail make for an inspiring, informative book.
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