Daniel Snow is a waller, an artisan who builds walls, terraces, caverns, and the occasional sphere or pool out of dry stone. It's an ancient skill - building with only what the earth provides. No mortar, no nails, nothing to hold his creations together except gravity, an invisible glue he can sense in the stones' "conversations" of squeaks and rumbles. A hollow sound means a void needs to be filled; a solid fit is secured with the sound of a bolt being thrown. Snow's evocative prose and Peter Mauss' richly textured photographs of Snow's work reveal the nuance and beauty of walling - and of one man's relationship with nature. The result is by turns poetic and practical.
- ISBN13 9781579653477
- Publish Date 30 January 2007 (first published 1 April 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 November 2010
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Artisan
- Imprint Artisan Division of Workman Publishing
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 128
- Language English