Lawrence, an English workaway volunteer, arrived a few weeks ago fresh from a motorbike trip around South America. It wasn't until after a few weeks here that he casually slipped into the conversation that he had a first class art degree from one of the most prestigious art schools in the UK and that he was a straight A star student .... anyway he put his evident talents to use here and decided to create a sculptural herb spiral using stones recuperated from the old falling down barn on the land here ....
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| To start with ... a bit of internet research ... a video by Bill Mollison (the father of permaculture) showing how he starts with a conical pile of rubble ... various articles showing which direction the spiral should go in depending on if you are in the north or south hemisphere ... images of different styles and materials used .... |
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| The idea is to try to use recycled materials where possible .... so we decided to use the stones from the floor of the old torchis barn that is falling down. Lawrence brought a whole load of them up ...
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