Stations: On Eric Gill and the Poetics of Stone

StationsOn Eric Gill and the Poetics of Stone Heather H. Yeung (bio) + 1 We begin with rules form: words must be cut fair attention to punchline. Craft determines that letterer punchcutter are not same character. Patience craft both: Of patience there is this said. To patient suffer. By their fruits men know one another, but by sufferings they what are. And suffering merely endurance physical or mental anguish, joy also. A rabbit caught in a trap may supposed suffer anguish: it suffers nothing else. The man crucified & he also intense happiness joy. industrialist workman often simply as trap; artist nailed cross. In souls possessed. No lower view matter will suffice. (Eric Gill, An Essay on Typography) we call following: Sans—Gill Cameo— Perpetua—Golden Cockerel Roman—Hague Joanna—Monotype Joanna—Aries—Solus—Jubilee—Bunyan—Floriated Capitals—Gill Shadow Line. It easy write work Gill. Each day process attenuation I walk up onto moor above my house search fresh air. live place where trees do grow easily, so windbreaks between portions land fashioned stone, stone walls along. 2 How many prisoners notice quality material limits point at level more than perception discomfort? might remark coolness heat wall floor, its darkness light, basic texture. . Yet once freed, how perpetually affected encounters was used form prison walls? [End Page 55] have been struggling about Gill; writing discomfort. There something side frame can’t see, known secret unprimed canvas, were. This either produces impetus has precipitated struggle. not, first foremost, painter. Nor he, typographical artist. worked stone. his philosophical investigation, Wittgenstein develops basis “primitive language”: engrossed act building, (master) calls out, B (apprentice) brings required Repeat each station until fully formed. 3 Yes, now focus most fluid materials. Begin again: Hoptonwood limestone peculiar qualities. eye— unknowing walled certain expectations implications—creates visual myths, which we—not seeing see them—tacitly, even unknowingly, accept. Such immured vision prevents our noticing true nature Hoptonwood, quarried Peak District Derbyshire characteristic gray-cream hue, usefully hard therefore favored Britain for carving sculpture an indigenous, decorative variety. taxonomized under name itself various. Whether “light,” “dark,” “marbled,” whorled smallest fossils, voids filled recrystallized calcite, and, whole, reliable. Because hard, curbing Peaks, interior flooring public buildings. surface can polished shine, because plastic particular, time when mis-sold marble. century rectified. continue polish 56] 4 One hundred twenty thousand Commonwealth graves carved from stones shipped France Belgium installed. Pulled teeth uniform...