The Sheep Shed

Over time, I’ve expanded the walling work that’s been the backbone on my career to include dry stone sculpture and environmental art. The designs typically take dry stone techniques and traditions into new territory. A concept will be explored through the lens of what’s known to have worked in the past. The core of a design is always some borrowed understanding. It might be my own knowledge gained from a previous project, or, it may be the experience of others made intelligible through observation and study. Design is applied comprehension. The creation of an art piece begins with fabrication and ends with installation.

Art, Dry Stone Walling, SculptureDan SnowSeptember 27, 2013art, craft, dry stone sculpture, dry stone walling, environmental art, featured, sculpture, sheep shed

The Sheep Shed

The Sheep Shed resides at the convergence of two paths trodden into the hillside by many generations of sheep hooves. Three dry stone walls, built from cobbles and boulders selected from a gravel pit, support oak timbers. A light weight network of spruce log poles rests on the frame. In ascending layers, thick slabs of flat stone from a quarry in Goshen, Massachusetts cover the pole rafters. The roof stones are not affixed in any way. They are held in place by the sheer weight of their collective mass. Twenty tons of stone float over the void of the sheep shed interior.

Dry Stone, Dry Stone Walling, Environmental Art, Nature, StoneDan SnowJanuary 30, 2011art, berg, craft, environmental art, new hampshire, sheep shed, stone, stonework, stoneworks