Natural Building Colloquium—East

Bath, NY

JUN-JULY.2004

I worked so hard on the preparation for the Colloquium that I wanted to experience the event to its fullest—which meant leaving the camera alone for a while. I dragged it out a few times, especially for the Japanese timber frame, and the results are here.

The second half of the photos are actually from the weeks following the NBC—E, during which a lot of plaster and cob were mixed by foot.

There are literally thousands of digital photos of the Colloquium, some of them mine, that may someday be published on the web. I'll let you know.

a man stands in a building site
a young man peels bark from a log
a group of men handle a curved timber
a man's face seen against the sky
a woman stands on a roof
a main wields a chainsaw dangerously
a man sits on a circle of straw bales
people work on a circle of straw bales
looking up at a round straw-bale wall
a girl and two women mix cob
a man jokingly brandishes a reciprocating saw
people mix plaster with their feet
a woman trowels plaster on a straw-bale wall
a man smiles with a shovel
kids play in mud
kids play in mud
a little girl smiles ankle-deep in mud
people laugh and make cobs
a little girl shows her muddy hands
a long exposure of people plastering
a smiling woman holds clay plaster in both hands

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