Tag: Stone Carving
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The Workman’s Brew: Covent Garden and the Inigo Jones Standard. The Formative Years Before my work became international, and before I reached the level of Master, I was cutting my teeth on the historic streets of London. The early 80s were my classroom, and the Grade I listed landmarks of the city were my teachers.…
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The Second Meeting: Why the Master Measures Twice. The Two Truths Modernity is obsessed with the “Reasonable.” We believe that if a decision survives a spreadsheet at a desk, the job is done. But a Master knows that logic is only half the measurement. The ancient Persians, as recorded by Herodotus, understood that human reality…
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History is rarely a straight line. It is often a series of mirrored images and hard-learned truths. In the early 1980s, I found myself in Umbilo, a suburb of Durban, working on the City Hall. As a student of architecture and stone, the building fascinated me. Designed by Stanley G. Hudson and completed in 1910,…