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• About STONE project
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
    • 1  Introduction
    • 2   Context
    • 3  Why photos?
    • 4  Why film?
    • 5  Why a physical collection of tools and related objects?
    • 6  Why texts?
    • 7  Why quotes?
    • 8  Why interviews?
    • 9  Why a public carving event?
    • 10  Why links to other sites?
    • 11  Archive
    • 12  Why news items?
    • 13  Why a bibliography?
  • How the website works
  • Who are we?
  • Jess Harrison's Introduction to STONE
  • Image Gallery
• Artists
  • Sculptors
  • Image Gallery
• Philosophy
  • Introduction
  • Reductive | Subtractive thinking
    • 1   What is Reductive Thinking?
    • 2  Reductive Thinking Skills
    • 3  The Means and Meanings of Reduction
    • 4  A Mode of Thinking
    • 5  The Judgment of Margins
    • 6  Refinement and Tuning
    • 7  Material
    • 8  Exploration (Splitting / Projecting / Groping)
  • Touch (Haptics)
    • 1  The Unspoken
    • 2  Vision versus Touch
    • 3  Touch: a lost sense?
    • 4  Stone and Touch
    • 5  Tactile Perception
    • 6  The skill and the habit
    • 7  Teaching Tacit Skills
  • Quotations
  • Poetry
    • On a Raised Beach by Hugh MacDiarmid
    • Stones by George Quasha
    • Genesis of a Sculpture by Brian Clark
    • Stones by John Murray
    • Selection of Japanese Haiku
  • Bibliography
    • 1  Primary Sources
    • 2  Other Sources
    • 3  Gift Publications from Artists Visited
  • Image Gallery
• Techniques
  • Introduction
  • Quarrying
    • 1  Attraction to the material
    • 2  Extracting the stone
    • 3  Moving Stone
    • 4  Harvesting Stone
    • 5  The Quarryman
    • 6  Life of a Quarry
    • 7  The Quarry and the Sculptor
    • 8  Carving and Quarrying
  • Stone Workers
    • 1  Introduction | Stone Workers
    • 2  Cathedral Workshops & Masons'Training
    • 3  Quarry Workers
    • 4  Blacksmiths
    • 5  Amplifiers
    • 6  Sculptors
    • 7  Building Stone Walls
    • 8  Drawing Multiplicities
    • 9  Restoration Repositioning
    • 10  Moving As Observation
  • Tools & Techniques
    • 1  Introduction | Tools
    • 2  Shifting Balance and the Given Order
    • 3  The Hand
    • 4  Engagement
    • 5  Experience, Tools and Thoughts
    • 6  Technique
    • 7  Stone carving tools - introduction
    • 8  Impact tools
    • 9  Abrasive tools
    • 10  Measuring devices
    • 11  Actions and Procedures
  • Image Gallery
• Geology
  • Introduction
  • On Stone - Spectrums of Hardness
  • The Life Cycle of Stone
  • Stones
  • Image Gallery
• Milestone
  • Milestone | Introduction
  • Milestone | Artist Selection
  • Milestone | Exhibition 2009
  • STONE travelling exhibition | 2010
  • Image Gallery
• Film Gallery
  • Introduction | Filming STONE project
  • Education
  • Quarrying
  • Tools & Techniques
  • Sculptors
  • Subtractive Thinking, Tactility & Performance
  • Stone Worker
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