Practice in Elberta
A short statement of where the work comes from, what it refuses, and why the site is built as an editorial archive instead of a portfolio brochure.
The first wall was a small fieldstone retaining wall for a garden, built young with more enthusiasm than knowledge. The craft proper came later, including a Dry Stone Conservancy workshop and competition, and restoration and teaching work that forces a builder to stop bluffing.
Walls of that kind — Camp Ripley, Wyman Park Dell, Hopewell Furnace — are where the standards came from. Standing back from a long run teaches you what a short section can hide.
The practice works in dry stone because the method matters as much as the look. A wall needs to stand on its own merit while it is being built, not merely after other systems prop it up.
That is why the site mixes biography, vocabulary, commissions, and case studies. The client who reads all of that is usually the client worth working with.
