it’s primal
At every Ye Olde Stone School demonstration, the most enthusiastic participants are children, aged between five and 12.
Whether they’re turning the 120 year old manual bench grinder to sharpen a chisel, or throwing their entire strength into the adult sized mallet towards a chisel to shape a stone, their innocent lack of inhibition suggests that the urge to shape stone is primal.
It is fun to turn a boulder into a building, bit by bit.
A child can feel the thrill in the moment of change.
The rest of us are often lost in the counting of the multitude of ‘bits’ it takes to produce a ‘result’.
Ye Olde Stone School is set up to suspend time, to allow youth (of any age) to play with a rock to see what little dream might come true…
A hand crafted dwelling is not just a dream, it’s a collection of many little ones…
