All of us who work with concrete understand the nature of the intimate relationship with both our material and our clients. Concrete has the power to seduce. That is true for both those who make it, and those who desire it. This is as true for concrete dams, as it is for concrete countertops.
My profession is an accident. Every job I have had since college, I have had for the sole purpose of gaining materials to make art…
Mike Karmody and I have been teaching our craft of concrete countertops for many years now, both in our own shop and at Yestermorrow Design Build School in Warren Vermont.
Our original reasons for teaching about concrete counters and sinks were twofold. First we wanted to ensure that if we had competition, it would be good competition. Second, we wanted to make sure that those that otherwise could not afford concrete counters would be able to make their own….
For the past two years, we at Stone Soup Concrete have been involved in a project that has been quite special to us, and quite different from our core concrete countertops and sink work. The project involved the creation of 24 identical concrete objects that were intended to resemble Jersey barriers. But unlike the barriers found out in the wild, these were to be curved, not straight. And as they were to be shown in museum galleries…
