Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way

Simon Verity works on a statue on the western facade of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Upper Manhattan, New York, on June 24th 1997

2024-09-04  1064  晦涩

Inside that head he carried secrets. They were the same that had passed between masons, and were kept close, in the 13th century: the secret of architectural proportion, and of how to erect and balance, like fine branches, masses of cut stone. Whenever he started a cathedral job, making that first chip, he thought of the builders who had preceded him. Those masons had understood the cosmos as sacred geometry, and that was his conviction also.

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