Stone/Masonry

It's a funny thing, but most of the 'monumental stonemasonry' that we do, well, it doesn't really seem like stone-masonry.  Yes, sure, it's monumental, and it involves stone, but so much of it is fixing & gluing, foundations,...  I guess, actually, it really is stonemasonry but...
Today we were carving massive letters in stone.  It's part of the work that we (MiM) are doing as sponsors of the HIDDEN sculpture exhibition which starts next Wednesday and is open (and free) for a month afterwards.  It's just within Rooky at the Strathfield entrance off Centenary Drive– beside Reflections Cafe.
We're doing some letters to guide people to the show and highlight the location...   it's been a great and interesting challenge...  and really feels like good stone-masonry!

Hidden shadow letters...  if you can read them... well, it's all the work of your imagination!
The letters themselves are not carved in at all.
I found an old gravestone in the area of Section CC with these letters...  and thought how wonderful they are....  Very glad to get a chance to try the style out...  'though I couldn't find the old gravestone when I looked for it...  if only I hadn't been almost late for work that earlier day, I'd have taken a photo of the original!

The tap-tap-tap of mallets and chisels was a wonderful change from the loud and dusty  powertools we use every other day.

Grahame at work with a mallet...

Matthew's noiser as he uses a dummy hammer