Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 125).
Contents:
Foreword -- section 1. Art made with mud, kids, & communities -- Sling mud at walls (Denzer, Topper, Coleman) -- Mud murals : 1st aid for ailing walls -- Up from the mud : large scale earthworks -- A Berlin mud-village (R. Warzecha) -- Neighborhood mud : 1st aid for intersections (city repair) -- Earth installations : labyrinth & sundial (Denzer) -- School & site-specific sculpture (Denzer, Toper, Coleman) -- Very small hoses (Denzer, Raduazo) -- Home : a fable (Denzer) -- Building for birds (Raduazo) -- section 2. Design as process & pattern -- Process : design as a group activity -- Pattern murals -- Finding pattern (inspiration, geometry, fitting geometry to space, 1, 2, & 3) -- Mirror images to make patterns that move -- section 3. Mud recipes -- Intro -- Finding clay soil -- Recognizing clay -- Quick & dirty "snake" test -- Slow & nerdy "shake" test -- Prep & tools -- Basic mud recipe -- Big mud for structural use : "super cob" -- Mud for walls : plaster basics -- A plaster recipe -- Putting mud on walls : "harling," & other tricks to make it stick -- Mud-drawing tricks -- Color -- Re-creation is the best preservation (waterglass,etc.) -- Concrete : casting stories in stone -- section 4. Making art, continued (how things got done) -- Slinging mud, cont'd -- The hands of volunteers, cont'd -- Berlin, cont'd -- Designing the Berlin projects / Rainer Warzecha -- City repair, cont'd -- Home, cont'd -- Building for birds, cont'd -- Labyrinth & dial, cont'd -- Measure the earth/make a labyrinth -- Find the four directions -- Planning your labyrinth -- Step by step, illustrated -- Sundial construction, illustration -- Sundials tell more than time -- Author's notes : earth, art, knowledge -- Thanks -- Contributors -- Resources -- Art & teaching -- Earthen building, technical -- Workshop providers & practitioners -- Earthen art & inspiration -- Sundials & more -- Quick catalog & order form.
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