Knocking Stone

Another brilliantly sunny and hot day and the workshop has started. Annie, Regula, Corentin, Julien and I under Cosmas' guidance are finding how to work with Serpentine and after a day things are emerging from the stone. A lion here, a bird or a geometric form there, sometimes these things aren't quite what was expected or intended but they are already taking shape.

I think I can safely say everyone enjoyed themselves greatly. The place where we work has something to do with it as well. At times you hear no sound except for the birds and the ringing of hammer and chisel. At others there are bouts of laughter, people pulling each other's legs about their progress - or lack thereof...

After a hot and dusty morning we enjoyed an apero of our local white and rosé and, when we called it a day at 4pm nobody was in a rish to stop and some hammered on for another hour and couldn't leave their stones alone.